The Changing Face of Human Nature

Today, novelist Ian McEwan's Enduring Love embraces evolutionary psychology; A. S. Byatt's Babel Tower, genetics and neuroscience. [...] the humanities of past and present gesture toward the new materialist accounts of human nature.6 By the mid-nineteenth century, a fully reductive materia...

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Published in:	Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2009-07, Vol.138 (3), p.7-20
Main Authors:	Rose, Hilary, Rose, Steven
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Autism Behavioral neuroscience Biology Brain British & Irish literature Cultural change Developmental psychology Diagnostic tests Disorders English literature Ethical aspects Eugenics Evolution Face (Body) Genetic aspects Genetics Genomics Human evolution Human genetics Human Genome Project Human nature Humans Materialism Mind Neurosciences Psychological aspects Psychology Science Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797-1851) Social change Social norms Social systems Social values Society Sociological research
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Summary:	Today, novelist Ian McEwan's Enduring Love embraces evolutionary psychology; A. S. Byatt's Babel Tower, genetics and neuroscience. [...] the humanities of past and present gesture toward the new materialist accounts of human nature.6 By the mid-nineteenth century, a fully reductive materialism, or to use philosopher Daniel Dennett's term, a "greedy reductionism,"7 had taken a firm hold within the sciences.\n Such skepticism, reinforced by the challenges from the disability movement, has had a measurable effect in the United Kingdom ; today, despite the increasing availability of NHS diagnostic testing for Down's, there are more babies born with the condition, not fewer.
ISSN:	0011-5266 1548-6192