The Heredity Hoax: Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories of Human Development

Cover
Endorsements
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
SECTION I: FRAMING THE CHOICE: THE PSEUDO-EVIDENCE AND PESSIMISM OF GENETIC REDUCTIONS VS. THE EVIDENCE AND OPTIMISM DERIVED FROM RESEARCH FRAMED BY DYNAMIC, RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS-BASED CONCEPTS
	Editors’ Introduction
	1. Addressing the Heredity Hoax in Science and Society: A View of the Issues
	2. The Fallacies and Failures of Genetic Reductionism: An Historical Review of Lessons Learned
SECTION II: METATHEORY AND THEORY ABOUT THE NATURE-NURTURE COACTION
	Editors’ Introduction
	3. Metatheory and the Primacy of Conceptual Analysis in Developmental Science
	4. The Failure of Biogenetic Analysis in Psychology: Why Psychology Is Nota Biological Science
	5. What Galton’s Eugenics Has Wrought: Behavior Genetics and Heritability
SECTION III: THE CONCEPTS OF INSTINCT AND CRITICAL PERIODS
	Editors’ Introduction
	6. Development Evolving: The Origins and Meanings of Instinct
	7. Critical Period: A History of the Transition from Questions of When, to What, to How
	8. Short Arms and Talking Eggs: Why We Should No Longer Abide the Nativist-Empiricist Debate
SECTION IV: EVOLUTION
	Editors’ Introduction
	9. Toward a New Developmental and Evolutionary Synthesis
	10. Précis of Evolution in Four Dimensions
	11. Developmental Evolution
	12. Evolving Evolutionary Psychology
	13. Evolution beyond Neo-Darwinism: A new Conceptual Framework
SECTION V: BEHAVIOR GENETICS: HERITABILITY, TWIN STUDIES, ADOPTION STUDIES, AND IQ
	Editors’ Introduction
	14. From Gene to Organism: The Developing Individual as an Emergent, Interactional, Hierarchical System
	15. The Heritability Fallacy
	16. The 1990 “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared-Apart” IQ Study: Ripe for Retraction?
SECTION VI: SOCIOBIOLOGY
	Editors’ Introduction
	17. Sociobiology and the Theory of Natural Selection
	18. Sociobiology and Human Development: Arguments and Evidence
SECTION VII: EPIGENETICS
	Editors’ Introduction
	19. Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression
	20. Human Social Genomics
	21. Behavioral Epigenetics
	22. Dynamic Heredity
SECTION VIII: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
	Editors’ Introduction
	23. The Bell Curve at 30: A Closer Look at the Within- and Between-Group IQ Genetic Evidence
	24. Using the Science of Learning and Development to Transform Educational Practice
	25. The Future of the Science of Learning and Development: Whole-Child Development, Learning, and Thriving in an Era of Collective Adversity, Disruptive Change, and Increasing Inequality
	26. Rejecting Genetic Reductionism and Embracing Relationism and the Complexity of Dynamic Systems
Author Index
Subject Index