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    • Where does our behaviour come from?

      Patrick Bateson

      Perspectives Volume 26 Issue 5 December 2001 pp 561-570

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    • Abstract

       

      Looking for single causes, whether genetic or environmental, may yield answers of a kind, but little sense of what happens as each individual grows up. The language of nature versus nurture, or genes versus environment, gives only a feeble insight into the processes that I have called developmental cooking. The best that can be said of the nature/nurture split is that it provides a framework for uncovering a few of the genetic and environmental ingredients that generate differences between people. At worst, it satisfies a demand for simplicity in ways that are fundamentally misleading.

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      Patrick Bateson1

      1. The Provost’s Lodge, King’s College, Cambridge - CB2 1ST, UK

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      Published
      December 2001

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