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Rose succeeds where Wilson fails

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Jerry Hirsch
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology, Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820 [email protected] www.psych.uiuc.edu/people/faculty.html

Abstract

Rose's accomplishment in combining ontological unity with epistemological diversity contrasts it with Wilson's failure in overemphasizing the former and not appreciating the latter. This commentary cites the two most authoritative discussions of the inapplicability of heritability to human data, corrects several historical errors or inaccuracies in genetics, and criticizes the characterizations of Jacques Loeb and Robert Plomin.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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