A troublesome inheritance : genes, race and human history
Wade, Nicholas2014
Books, Manuscripts
Nicholas Wade draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle class social traits: thrift, docility, nonviolence, have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. While these values have a strong cultural component, Wade argues that evolution has played its part.
Main title:
A troublesome inheritance : genes, race and human history / by Nicholas Wade.
Author:
Wade, Nicholas, author
Imprint:
New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Collation:
280 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
15942062369781594206238 (pbk)
Dewey class:
304.5
Local class:
304.5
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1622470