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The Asymmetrical Bridge

The Asymmetrical Bridge Acta Biotheor (2015) 63:413–427 DOI 10.1007/s10441-015-9270-z BOOK REVIEW Book Review of James Tabery’s Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture David S. Moore Received: 2 September 2015 / Accepted: 9 September 2015 / Published online: 19 September 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 1 Introduction More than a decade ago, the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker published The blank slate, a book that weighed in on the centuries-old debate about the contributions of nature and nurture to human psychological characteristics (Pinker 2002). When the eminent British biologist Sir Patrick Bateson needed a title for his review of the book in Science, he chose to call it ‘‘The corpse of a wearisome debate,’’ because by 2002, Bateson already considered this debate to be ‘‘tedious and increasingly irrelevant’’ (Bateson 2002, p. 2212). But the public’s reaction was different: Pinker’s book was a bestseller that ultimately qualified as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Today, published studies continue to compare the contributions of genes and environments to complex human traits (Plomin and Deary 2015; Polderman et al. 2015) even as numerous theorists insist that such comparisons are pointless and that the Nature–Nurture debate should be considered passe (Blumberg http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Biotheoretica Springer Journals

The Asymmetrical Bridge

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2015 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
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Philosophy; Philosophy of Biology; Evolutionary Biology
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0001-5342
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1572-8358
DOI
10.1007/s10441-015-9270-z
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Acta Biotheor (2015) 63:413–427 DOI 10.1007/s10441-015-9270-z BOOK REVIEW Book Review of James Tabery’s Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture David S. Moore Received: 2 September 2015 / Accepted: 9 September 2015 / Published online: 19 September 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 1 Introduction More than a decade ago, the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker published The blank slate, a book that weighed in on the centuries-old debate about the contributions of nature and nurture to human psychological characteristics (Pinker 2002). When the eminent British biologist Sir Patrick Bateson needed a title for his review of the book in Science, he chose to call it ‘‘The corpse of a wearisome debate,’’ because by 2002, Bateson already considered this debate to be ‘‘tedious and increasingly irrelevant’’ (Bateson 2002, p. 2212). But the public’s reaction was different: Pinker’s book was a bestseller that ultimately qualified as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Today, published studies continue to compare the contributions of genes and environments to complex human traits (Plomin and Deary 2015; Polderman et al. 2015) even as numerous theorists insist that such comparisons are pointless and that the Nature–Nurture debate should be considered passe (Blumberg

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Published: Sep 19, 2015

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