Espousing interactions and fielding reactions: Addressing laypeople's beliefs about genetic determinism

Philosophical Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 331-348

  Moore, David S ^a,b  

^a PITZER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental systems theory; Gene environment interaction; Genetic determinism; Interactionism; Nature nurture

Indexed keywords

EID: 47249147511     PISSN: 09515089     EISSN: 1465394X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515080802170127     Document Type: Article

References (65)

1. Baron-Cohen, S. (1995). Mindblindness: An essay on autism and theory of mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2. Block, N. (1995). How heritability misleads about race. Cognition, 56, 99-128.
3. Carlson, E. A. (1966). The gene: A critical history. Philadelphia, PA: W.B.
4. Saunders Co. Chomsky, N. (1975). Reflections on language. New York: Pantheon Books.
5. Cohen, L. G., Celnik, P., Pascual-Leone, A., Corwell, B., Faiz, L., Dambrosia, J., et al. (1997). Functional relevance of cross-modal plasticity in blind humans. Nature, 389, 180-183.
6. Cole, M., Cole, S. R., & Lightfoot, C. (2004). The development of children (5th ed.). New York: Worth.
7. Cosmides, L. (1989). The logic of social exchange: Has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task. Cognition, 31, 187-276.
8. Gehring, W. J. (1998). Master control genes in development and evolution: The homeobox story. New Haven: Yale University Press.
9. Gilbert, S. F. (2001). Ecological developmental biology: Developmental biology meets the real world. Developmental Biology, 233, 1-12.
10. Gilbert, S. F. (2006). Developmental biology (8th ed.). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer.
11. Gilbert, S. F., & Jorgensen, E. M. (1998). Wormwholes: A commentary on K. F. Schaffner's 'Genes, Behavior, and Developmental Emergentism'. Philosophy of Science, 65, 259-266.
12. Gottlieb, G. (1981). Roles of early experience in species-specific perceptual development. In R. N. Aslin, J. R. Alberts, & M. R. Petersen (Eds.), Development of perception: Psychobiological perspectives. Vol. 1. Audition, somatic perception, and the chemical senses (pp. 5-44). New York: Academic Press.
13. Gottlieb, G. (1991a). Experiential canalization of behavioral development: Theory. Developmental Psychology, 27, 4-13.
14. Gottlieb, G. (1991b). Experiential canalization of behavioral development: Results. Developmental Psychology, 27, 35-39.
15. Gottlieb, G. (1992). Individual development and evolution: The genesis of novel behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.
16. Gottlieb, G. (1995). Some conceptual deficiencies in 'developmental' behavior genetics. Human Development, 38, 131-141.
17. Gottlieb, G. (1998). Normally occurring environmental and behavioral influences on gene activity: From central dogma to probabilistic epigenesis. Psychological Review, 105, 792-802.
18. Greenough, W. T., Black, J. E., & Wallace, C. S. (1987). Experience and brain development. Child Development, 58, 539-559.
19. Griffiths, P. E., Gray, R. D. (1994). Developmental systems and evolutionary explanation. The Journal of Philosophy, XCI, 277-304.
20. Griffiths, P. E., & Gray, R. D. (2001). Darwinism and developmental systems. In S. Oyama, P. E. Griffiths, & R. D. Gray (Eds.), Cycles of contingency: Developmental systems and evolution (pp. 195-218). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
21. Griffiths, P. E., & Stotz, K. (2006). Genes in the Postgenomic era. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 27(6), 499-521.
22. Harper, L. V. (2005). Epigenetic inheritance and the intergenerational transfer of experience. Psychological Bulletin, 131, 340-360.
23. Jablonka., E., & Lamb, M. J. (1995). Epigenetic inheritance and evolution: The Lamarckian dimension. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
24. Jablonka, E., & Lamb, M. J. (2005). Evolution in four dimensions: Genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic variation in the history of life. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
25. Joseph, J. (2001). Separated twins and the genetics of personality differences: A critique. The American Journal of Psychology, 114, 1-30.
26. Joseph, J. (2006). The missing gene: Psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes. New York, NY: Algora Pub.
27. Kaas, J. H. (1991). Plasticity of sensory and motor maps in adult mammals. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 14, 137-167.
28. Keller, E. F. (2000). The century of the gene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
29. King, A. P, West, M. J., & Goldstein, M. H. (2005). Non-vocal shaping of avian song development: Parallels to human speech development. Ethology, 111, 101-117.
30. Kuo, Z.-Y. (1976). The dynamics of behavior development (enlarged ed.). New York, NY: Plenum Press.
31. Lehrman, D. S. (1953). A critique of Konrad Lorenz's theory of instinctive behavior. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 28, 337-363.
32. Lewontin, R. C. (2000). The triple helix: Gene, organism, and environment. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
33. Lewontin, R. C., Rose, S., & Kamin, L. J. (1984). Not in our genes. New York: Pantheon.
34. Lickliter, R., & Berry, T. D. (1990). The phylogeny fallacy: Developmental psychology's misapplication of evolutionary theory. Developmental Review, 10, 348-364.
35. Lickliter, R., & Honeycutt, H. (2003). Developmental dynamics: Toward a biologically plausible evolutionary psychology. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 819-835.
36. Lorenz, K. (1965). Evolution and modification of behavior. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
37. Meaney, M. J. (2007, March). Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in rats: Maternal effects on programming of behavioral and endocrine responses to stress. In B. J. Ellis (Chair), The stress response systems: Integrated evolutionary-developmental perspectives. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
38. Meaney, M. J., & Szyf, M. (2005). Maternal care as a model for experience-dependent chromatin plasticity? Trends in Neurosciences, 28, 456-463.
39. Merzenich, M. (1998). Long-term change of mind. Science, 282, 1062-1063.
40. Michel, G. F., & Moore, C. L. (1995). Developmental psychobiology: An interdisciplinary science. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
41. Moore, D. S. (2001). The dependent gene: The fallacy of nature vs. nurture. New York: W.H. Freeman.
42. Moore, D. S. (2006). A very little bit of knowledge: Re-evaluating the meaning of the heritability of IQ. Human Development, 49, 347-353.
43. Moss, L. (2003). What genes can't do. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
44. Müller, G. B. (2003). Embryonic motility: Environmental influences and evolutionary innovation. Evolution & Development, 5, 56-60.
45. National Academy of Sciences (1999). Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
46. Nijhout, H. F. (2003). The importance of context in genetics. American Scientist, 91, 416-423.
47. Pantev, C., Oostenveld, R., Engelien, A., Ross, B., Roberts, L. E., & Hoke, M. (1998). Increased auditory cortical representation in musicians. Nature, 392, 811-813.
48. Pinker, S. (2002). The blank slate: The modern denial of human nature. New York: Viking.
49. Pinker, S. (1994). The language instinct: How the mind creates language. New York: W. Morrow.
50. Robert, J. S. (2006). Embryology, epigenesis and evolution: Taking development seriously. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
51. Schneirla, T. C. (1966). Behavioral development and comparative psychology. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 41, 283-302.
52. Smith, C. W. J., Patton, J. G., & Nadal-Ginard, B. (1989). Alternative splicing in the control of gene expression. Annual Review of Genetics, 23, 527-577.
53. Sober, E. (1981). The principle of parsimony. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 32, 145-156.
54. Spelke, E. S., & Kinzler, K. D. (2007). Core knowledge. Developmental Science, 10, 89-96.
55. Stotz, K. (2006). With 'genes' like that, who needs an environment? Postgenomics's argument for the 'ontogeny of information'. Philosophy of Science, 73, 905-917.
56. Sturtevant, A. H. (1915). The behavior of the chromosomes as studied through linkage. Zeitschrift für Induktive Abstammungs und Verersbungslehre, 13, 234-287.
57. Sulloway, F. J. (1992). Freud, biologist of the mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
58. Thelen, E., & Smith, L. B. (1994). A dynamic systems approach to the development of cognition and action. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
59. Wade, N. (2005, May 10). For gay men, an attraction to a different kind of scent. The New York Times, p. Al.
60. Weaver, I. C. G., D'Alessio, A. C., Brown, S. E., Hellstrom, I. C., Dymov, S., Sharma, S., et al. (2007). The transcription factor nerve growth factor-inducible protein A mediates epigenetic programming: Altering epigenetic marks by immediate-early genes. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 1756-1768.
61. West, M. J., & King, A. P. (1987). Settling nature and nurture into an ontogenetic niche. Developmental Psychobiology, 20, 549-562.
62. West, M. J., & King, A. P. (1988). Female visual displays affect the development of male song in the cowbird. Nature, 334, 224-246.
63. Wilson, E. O. (1978). On human nature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
64. Wolpert, L. (1992). The triumph of the embryo. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
65. Yamamoto, K. R. (1985). Steroid receptor regulated transcription of specific genes and gene networks. Annual Review of Genetics, 19, 209-252.