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Hommes supérieurs, hommes inférieurs? : La controverse sur l'hérédité de l'intelligence
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ISBN: 2200312075 9782200312077 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris: Armand Colin,

"Fighting for the Good Cause" : reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American hereditarian psychology
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ISBN: 0871699125 9780871699121 Year: 2001 Volume: 91/2 Publisher: Philadelphia: American philosophical society,

Cycles of contingency : developmental systems and evolution
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ISBN: 0262150530 9780262150538 9780262650632 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press,


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Flowers, birds, wind, and moon : the phenomenology of nature in Japanese culture
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ISBN: 9784866581392 4866581395 Year: 2020 Publisher: Tokyo: Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture,

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Japanese culture is deeply rooted in nature - from literature to the visual arts, and from religious practice to daily life. How, when, and why this close association with nature developed is explored in this book by bestselling author Matsuoka Seigow. Using ten key motifs - mountains, paths, deities, wind, birds, flowers, buddhas, time, dreams, and moon - each of which serves as a lens on different aspects of Japanese culture, Matsuoka ranges from history and ethnology to the arts. He also explores the insights that emerge when traditional sensibilities are examined from the perspective of modern science. Japanese concepts of time, interval, and otherness, though arrived at intuitively, overlap with how contemporary fields such as quantum physics and relatively theory grapple with issues of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and ambiguity. Matsuoka proposes that throughout history, the phenomena of nature and the kaleidosope of seasonal change have functioned as a system of recombinant codes for the expression of the Japanese sensibility. This unique multimedia system for the cultural construction of nature has generated the essential creative motifs of Japanese literature, fine arts, and crafts, which in turn have shaped every aspect of Japanese life and thought.


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Human diversity
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ISBN: 9789814632355 9789814632362 9814632368 981463235X Year: 2015 Publisher: New Jersey

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"Human diversity, with its myriad of different conditions involving biology, psychology, and social structures, remains one of the biggest challenges — and opportunities — facing the species. With many government and private firms now having diversity or equality officers, programmes or committees, it is clear that human diversity is a cornerstone of policy-making at the very highest echelons. All this points to a need for proper scientific and medical information on this topic — not soft 'politically correct' sociology. This book provides the hard facts on human similarities and differences, their causes and effects on people. It covers the whole range from normal to extreme human types, and presents — for the first time — much of the author's 25 years of original research on the subject. It can also act as a family medical guide to aspects of human function, structure and disease. It covers many human topics in a humane and understandable fashion, providing much material for information and discussion. It can be used as a handbook or textbook on human diversity, but is mainly popular science for the general public. A special feature of this book is the 140 colour photos that illustrate the diversity of human life, nearly all taken by the author himself. Given the vast nature of the subject, the book seamlessly integrates relevant data from multiple disciplines including medicine, biology, anthropology, genetics, psychology, evolution, languages, sociology, history and geography. Even controversial subjects such as race, class and culture are tackled head-on with no-nonsense scientific rigour."--


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Heredity-environment influences on growth and development during adolescence : a longitudinal study of twins
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ISSN: 0348291X ISBN: 9140046818 9789140046819 Year: 1979 Volume: 4 Publisher: Lund: Liber Läromedel,

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