[SunkenCiv]

Matt Ridley wrote "Genome". Here's a review of his new one (may be a dead link):

Matt Ridley:
Nature via Nurture
by Stan Pinnegar
21.11.2003

Some scientists, he says, believe that chimpanzees do not have a theory of mind, that is, they cannot imagine what another chimp is thinking. But studies show ambiguity. Chimps, we are told, regularly engage in deception. A baby chimp, for example, pretended he was being attacked by an adolescent so his mother would let him suckle her. Baboons, the author tells us, have performed well enough at computer discrimination tasks to show they are capable of abstract reasoning.

In the chapter The Madness of Causes we learn about such mental illnesses as bipolar disorder and, in Blame Mother, schizophrenia. The author makes the sobering point that heritability of schizophrenia is high in Western society, roughly 80 per cent, or about the same as body weight and much more than personality. And did you know that a mouse has 1036 olfactory sensors in its nose?

Here's the book:

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Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human by Matt Ridley

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[SunkenCiv]

Appropriate title -- Crick croaked:

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Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox

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