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Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley — WisdomDeck honest review
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Nature via Nurture

by Matt Ridley

Genes are not blueprints but devices for extracting information from the environment; nature works through nurture. Dissolves the old debate.

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  1. Genes respond to experience.
  2. The debate is false.
  3. Both, always.

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