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Uncivilised Genes

Author : Gustav Milne
Publisher : Crown House Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781352836
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Uncivilised Genes written by Gustav Milne and published by Crown House Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Uncivilised Genes: Human Evolution and the Urban Paradox, Gustav Milne explores how we can reconfigure our lifestyles and urban environments, based on an understanding of our prehistoric past, in order to bring about a richer future for mankind. We evolved as hunter-gatherers over a period of more than three million years: living off the land within small tribal societies in a symbiotic working relationship with nature. Understanding this legacy and how our evolution has determined our social, psychological, nutritional and physiological needs means we can adopt what Milne has termed evolutionary-concordant behaviours: behaviours designed to reconcile the fundamental mismatch between our current urban lifestyles and our ancient biology. Our ancestral diets and lifestyles could hold the secret not only to enhancing our health and happiness but also to combating the prevalence of western lifestyle diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and various types of cancer to name but a few. Milne expertly evaluates these challenges - along with many other issues pertinent to our urban wellbeing - and proposes solutions within our reach, including adaptations to our dietary regimes, lifestyle-embedded activities and school and university curriculums, and a re-engineering of our built environment to better suit our needs. Drawing on what archaeological evidence reveals about Palaeolithic and Mesolithic diets, as well as on anthropological studies of contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, Uncivilised Genes offers timely insights to enhance our collective and individual health and prosperity. It also shines a spotlight on the evolutionary determinants of social behaviour, and looks at how we can bridge the gap between the world we are creating and the un-urbanised, uncivilised world to which we are genetically and psychologically better adapted. This book is not a rejection of modernity. Neither is it a call to reject towns and seek solace in a rural idyll, nor another celebrity-endorsed fad diet or exercise programme. Rather, it is a comprehensive chronicle of the myriad factors that continue to contribute to our societal and personal wellbeing, and a broad-ranging blueprint for a richer future more in tune with our basic physiology, psychology, metabolism and mindset. Essential reading for anyone interested in living a healthier, more evolutionary-concordant life. Contents include: 1. In the Beginning; 2. Genesis; 3. A View of the Garden; 4. A Hunger Game; 5. Food for Thought; 6. Body of Evidence; 7. A Life Less Sedentary; 8. Lost Tribes; 9. Hunter-Gatherer vs. Football-Shopper; 10. Music and Words; 11. Green and Pleasant; 12. Central Park; 13. Old Town; 14. Urban Regeneration; 15. Revelations.

Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing

Author : Camilla Lenzi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802202633
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing written by Camilla Lenzi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing represents a timely and seminal contribution to the literature tackling one of the most crucial concerns of modern times: the rise of inequalities and its far-reaching implications for individual wellbeing. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, the book highlights the different types and sources of inequalities and identifies opportunities for policy action to tackle various inequalities at once.

Congenital Cataracts

Author : Jules François
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Congenital Cataracts written by Jules François and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Genetic Philosophy of Education

Author : George Everett Partridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic Philosophy of Education written by George Everett Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Troublesome Inheritance

Author : Nicholas Wade
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698163796
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book A Troublesome Inheritance written by Nicholas Wade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years—to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well. Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, 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. These “values” obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regarding the genetic basis of traits we associate with intelligence, such as literacy and numeracy, in certain ethnic populations, including the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. Wade believes deeply in the fundamental equality of all human peoples. He also believes that science is best served by pursuing the truth without fear, and if his mission to arrive at a coherent summa of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history leads straight into a minefield, then so be it. This will not be the last word on the subject, but it will begin a powerful and overdue conversation.

Genes in Conflict

Author : Austin Burt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674017139
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Genes in Conflict written by Austin Burt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In evolution, most genes survive and spread within populations because they increase the ability of their hosts (or their close relatives) to survive and reproduce. But some genes spread in spite of being harmful to the host organism—by distorting their own transmission to the next generation, or by changing how the host behaves toward relatives. As a consequence, different genes in a single organism can have diametrically opposed interests and adaptations.Covering all species from yeast to humans, Genes in Conflict is the first book to tell the story of selfish genetic elements, those continually appearing stretches of DNA that act narrowly to advance their own replication at the expense of the larger organism. As Austin Burt and Robert Trivers show, these selfish genes are a universal feature of life with pervasive effects, including numerous counter-adaptations. Their spread has created a whole world of socio-genetic interactions within individuals, usually completely hidden from sight.Genes in Conflict introduces the subject of selfish genetic elements in all its aspects, from molecular and genetic to behavioral and evolutionary. Burt and Trivers give us access for the first time to a crucial area of research—now developing at an explosive rate—that is cohering as a unitary whole, with its own logic and interconnected questions, a subject certain to be of enduring importance to our understanding of genetics and evolution.

Genes and the Bioimaginary

Author : Deborah Lynn Steinberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317129458
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Genes and the Bioimaginary written by Deborah Lynn Steinberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genes and the Bioimaginary examines the dramatic rise and contemporary cultural apotheosis of 'the gene'. The book traces not only the genetification of modern life but is also a journey through the complex relationship between science and culture. At the heart of this book are three interlinked questions. The first concerns the paradigmatic transformations of the 'genetics revolution': how can we understand the impact of genes on social arenas as diverse as law and agriculture, politics and medicine, genealogy and jurisprudence? Second, how has the language of genes come to pervade public discourse - as much a trope of personal narrative as of the popular imaginary? And third, how can we gain critical purchase not only on the conditions and consequences of a particular science, but on its projective seductions, the terms of its persuasion, and the dilemmas and anxieties provoked in its wake? Through a series of illuminating case studies ranging from 'gay genes' to 'Jew genes', to genes for crime; from CSI to the Innocence Project, from genetics (post)racial imaginary to its phantasies of redemption, the book examines the emergence of the gene as a pre-eminent locus of both scientific and social explanation, and as a powerful object of spectacle, projective phantasy and attachment. Genes and the Bioimaginary makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of how knowledge comes to be not only powerful, but plausible.

Genetic-speculative philosophy of religion. 2 v

Author : Otto Pfleiderer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genetic-speculative philosophy of religion. 2 v written by Otto Pfleiderer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History: Genetic-speculative philosophy of religion (2 vols.)

Author : Otto Pfleiderer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History: Genetic-speculative philosophy of religion (2 vols.) written by Otto Pfleiderer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Inequality

Author : Carles Lalueza-Fox
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547317
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Inequality written by Carles Lalueza-Fox and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How genomics reveals deep histories of inequality, going back many thousands of years. Inequality is an urgent global concern, with pundits, politicians, academics, and best-selling books all taking up its causes and consequences. In Inequality, Carles Lalueza-Fox offers an entirely new perspective on the subject, examining the genetic marks left by inequality on humans throughout history. Lalueza-Fox describes genetic studies, made possible by novel DNA sequencing technologies, that reveal layers of inequality in past societies, manifested in patterns of migration, social structures, and funerary practices. Through their DNA, ancient skeletons have much to tell us, yielding anonymous stories of inequality, bias, and suffering. Lalueza-Fox, a leader in paleogenomics, offers the deep history of inequality. He explores the ancestral shifts associated with migration and describes the gender bias unearthed in these migrations—the brutal sexual asymmetries, for example, between male European explorers and the women of Latin America that are revealed by DNA analysis. He considers social structures, and the evidence that high social standing was inherited—the ancient world was not a meritocracy. He untangles social and genetic factors to consider whether wealth is an advantage in reproduction, showing why we are more likely to be descended from a king than a peasant. And he explores the effects of ancient inequality on the human gene pool. Marshaling a range of evidence, Lalueza-Fox shows that understanding past inequalities is key to understanding present ones.

Not in Our Genes

Author : Steven Peter Russell Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Not in Our Genes written by Steven Peter Russell Rose and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Twilight of the Gene

Author : John Pugsley
Publisher : Janus Book Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Twilight of the Gene written by John Pugsley and published by Janus Book Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inherited behaviour was once a necessary part of our evolutionary survival kit. This text examines whether this determination threatens the ongoing development of our species.

The Genial Gene

Author : Joan Roughgarden
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520943018
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Genial Gene written by Joan Roughgarden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are selfishness and individuality—rather than kindness and cooperation—basic to biological nature? Does a "selfish gene" create universal sexual conflict? In The Genial Gene, Joan Roughgarden forcefully rejects these and other ideas that have come to dominate the study of animal evolution. Building on her brilliant and innovative book Evolution's Rainbow, in which she challenged accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation, Roughgarden upends the notion of the selfish gene and the theory of sexual selection and develops a compelling and controversial alternative theory called social selection. This scientifically rigorous, model-based challenge to an important tenet of neo-Darwinian theory emphasizes cooperation, elucidates the factors that contribute to evolutionary success in a gene pool or animal social system, and vigorously demonstrates that to identify Darwinism with selfishness and individuality misrepresents the facts of life as we now know them.

Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice

Author : Colin Tudge
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 086315977X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice written by Colin Tudge and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, including human beings, are driven by their selfish DNA; that the universe is just stuff, for us to use at will. These ideas are seen as emerging from science and hard-nosed philosophy, and become self-fulfilling. They have led us to create a world in perpetual strife,that is unjust and in many ways precarious. This remarkable book by an experienced author and thinker argues there's another way of looking at the world that is just as rooted in modern science, and yet says precisely the opposite: that life is in fact cooperative; all creatures, including human beings, are basically nice; that there's more to the 'stuff' of the world than meets the eye. This book is both a powerful call to rethink our assumptions, and a message of hope for those who believe we're doomed to self-destruction.

Health, Medicine and Society

Author : Michael Calnan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134598262
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Health, Medicine and Society written by Michael Calnan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text brings together a range of eminent international scholars to reflect upon matters of health, medicine and society at the turn of the century.

Altered Genes : Genesis

Author : Mark K. Kelly
Publisher : Mark K. Kelly
ISBN 13 : 0994740522
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book Altered Genes : Genesis written by Mark K. Kelly and published by Mark K. Kelly. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Genes, Polymorphisms, and the Making of Societies

Author : Hippokratis Kiaris
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627343458
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Genes, Polymorphisms, and the Making of Societies written by Hippokratis Kiaris and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our genes determine to a large extent who we are and why we are different from others. In this book, Hippokratis Kiaris explores how various genetic polymorphisms in different ethnic populations may affect the development of distinct cultures and eventually historical decisions. It should be read by anybody interested in history, anthropology, behavior, psychology or genetics. The reader will find clues linking together these scientific disciplines and how such genetically determined behavioral traits may play an undervalued, as yet, role in shaping historical outcomes. The book initially describes some basic concepts on genetics and proceeds with an outline of human evolution, the journey of early humans Out-of-Africa, and the colonization of Earth by different human populations that eventually resulted in the development of different cultures. Then, by focusing on the two major prototype cultural lines, the Eastern and the Western, the author discusses differences in the corresponding civilizations in view of specific genetic polymorphisms that affect behavior and differ in frequencies between people of Asian and European origin. Finally, in view of the contemporary increasing tendency for cultural globalization, the book attempts to predict future trends on cultures and behavioral patterns. In this revised and extended second edition new data are included and new chapters, focusing on how sets of genes, as opposed to individual ones, coexist in different populations and may potentially impact cultural divergence throughout history.