About this book
Are people free to make choices, or do genes determine behavior? Paradoxically, the answer to both questions is "yes," because of neurogenetic individuality, a new theory with profound implications. This theory emerged from gene discoveries by Dr. Goldman and his colleagues which have been recently published in "Nature". Genetic studies reveal pathways from DNA to behavior that are helping us understand the diversity of human behavior and behavior of other species.
In this book, the complexity of human behavior and a person's ability to choose is explained as deriving from a relatively small number of genes which direct neurodevelopmental sequence. The author uses judicial, political, medical, and ethical examples to illustrate that this lifelong process is guided by individual genotype, molecular and physiologic principles, as well as by randomness and environmental exposures we choose and do not choose.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Jinn in the genome
Chapter 3: 2B or not 2B?
Chapter 4: Stephen Mobley and his X-chromosome
Chapter 5: Dial Multifactorial for Murder: The intersection of genes and culture
Chapter 6: Distorted capacity: The measure of the impaired will
Chapter 7: Distorted capacity: Neuropsychiatric diseases and the impaired will
Chapter 8: Inheritance of Behavior and Genes "For" Behavior Gene Wars
Chapter 9: The scientific and historic bases of genethics: Who watches the geneticists and by what principles?
Chapter 10: The world is double helical DNA, RNA and proteins, in a few easy pieces
Chapter 11: The stochastic brain: From DNA blueprint to behavior
Chapter 12: Reintroducing genes and behavior
Chapter 13: Warriors and Worriers
Chapter 14: How many genes does it take to make a behavior?
Chapter 15: The genesis and genetics of sexual behavior
Chapter 16: Gene x environment interaction
Chapter 17: The epigenetic revolution: Finding the imprint of the environment on the genome
Chapter 18: DNA on Trial
Chapter 19: Parents and children: Neurogenetic determinism and Neurogenetic individuality
Chapter 20: Summing up genetic predictors of behavior
Glossary
Suggested readings
Index
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