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Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism, [1] is the belief that human behaviour is directly controlled by an individual's genes or some component of their physiology, generally at the expense of the role of the environment, whether in embryonic development or in learning. [2]
In this article we examine four objections to the genetic modification of human beings: the freedom argument, the giftedness argument, the authenticity argument, and the uniqueness argument.
An emerging idea in the field of genetics called Genetic Determinism (Biological Determinism) is a concept that entertains the belief that human behavior is governed and controlled by the action of genes, and bypasses the role the environment plays.
In this Perspective, Harden reviews the terms genetic determinism, genetic essentialism and genetic reductionism to provide consensus and clarity about the meaning of these terms.
Genetic determinism is usually construed as the idea that “an organism’s phenotype is determined by genotype alone” (Sesardic 2005, p. 14). Though genetic determinism in this sense could apply to any life-form, the substantial controversy surrounding the notion predominantly or exclusively concerns its application to humans.
Biological determinism, the idea that most human characteristics, physical and mental, are determined at conception by hereditary factors passed from parent to offspring. Biological determinism was closely associated with the eugenics movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Genetic determinism overemphasizes the role of innate genetic factors in children’s psychological development and ignores the important influence of environment and education on children’s psychological development.
Genetic determinism is the idea that, although environmental factors play a role as well, we basically are our genes, so that the personal genome (i.e., the genetic material of an individual) not only provides us with self-understanding but may also enable us to become the managers of our own life.
Crude hereditarianism often re-emerges after major advances in biological knowledge: Darwinism begat eugenics; Mendelism begat worse eugenics. The flowering of medical genetics in the 1950s...
Deeper understanding of genotype by environment interactions at the molecular level could be potent antidote to societal concerns. In a new perspective article, researchers underscore the ...