JGE331H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Heredity, Socalled, Human Geography
23 Nov 2020
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Jge331 lecture 8: environment/biology as ideology: the complex career of. Premised on notion that nature plays a fundamental role in shaping human nature. Ascribes characteristics of species to genes and then the modification of those genes essentially to the selection pressure that comes from an external independent environment. Underpins the so-called doctrine of dna , namely that genotype determines phenotype, a sensibility that is absolutely crucial in animating the commercialization of genetically modified organisms. Insert, genes, change organism in entirely predictable wayor so we are told. Generate new kinds of organisms whose development and behavior that is predictable by change in their genetic composition. Ultimately, all human behavior hence all human society is governed by a chain of determinants that runs from the gene to the individual to the sum of the behaviors of all individuals. The determinists would have it, then, that human nature is fixed by our genes.
