| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 387 pages) |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pinning down potential -- Pretend genes -- Pretend intelligence -- Real genes, real intelligence -- Intelligent development -- How the brain makes potential -- A creative cognition -- Potential between brains -- Human intelligence -- Promoting potential -- The problems of education are not genetic -- Summary and conclusions -- Notes -- Index. |
| Summary |
"In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, the brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionists. He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies. Building on work being done in molecular biology, epigenetics, dynamical systems, evolution theory, and complexity theory, Richardson maps a fresh understanding of intelligence and the development of human potential informed by a more complete and nuanced understanding of both ideology and science."--Dust cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Intellect -- Genetic aspects.
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Intellect -- Genetic aspects. |
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Intelligence tests.
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Intelligence tests. |
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Brain -- Physiology.
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Brain -- Physiology. |
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Cognition.
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Cognition. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: RICHARDSON, KEN. GENES, BRAINS, AND HUMAN POTENTIAL. [Place of publication not identified] : COLUMBIA UNIV PRESS, 2017 0231178425 (OCoLC)962005051 |
| ISBN |
9780231543767 (electronic book) |
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023154376X (electronic book) |
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0231178425 |
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9780231178426 |
| Standard No. |
10.7312/rich17842 |
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