Genomes and What to Make of Them

Barnes, Barry; Dupré, John

doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226172965.001.0001

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“…Arguably the genome is a much less theoretically problematic entity than the gene (Barnes and Dupré 2008). Certainly there is no normal genome if that is taken to mean some precise sequence of nucleotides; but there is a great deal more to a genome than a sequence of nucleotides.…”

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What can evolution tell us about the healthy mind?

Dupré¹

2015

Oxford Medicine Online

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Chapter 29 covers how a field of scientific research is often transformed by the influence of ideas or modes of thought from a quite different field. Though this can often be highly beneficial, it can also have negative effects, involving an inappropriate attempted expansion of the domain of the intervening science, something the author of this chapter has referred to in the past as “scientific imperialism.” This chapter explores the application of evolutionary ideas to psychiatry and diagnoses this as an example of such undesirable imperialism. At least in the neo-Darwinian guise in which evolutionary ideas have been applied to psychiatry, they suffer the fatal defect of treating psychiatric conditions as genetically determined responses to the environment. It is argued in this chapter that they should rather be seen as outcomes of a complex and multifactorial developmental process to which evolved genetic factors have very limited relevance.

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Section: Is Evolution the Key To Understanding Human Behaviour?mentioning

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What can evolution tell us about the healthy mind?

Dupré¹

2015

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“…Since the molecular bandwagon took off in Europe and the US in the 1950s, the majority of resources and attention within biology has been dedicated to creating methods and technologies to study the lowest levels of organisations of organisms, particularly genomics (Testa andNowotny 2011, Müller-Wille andRheinberger 2012). This trend is now reversing, with substantial interest returning to the ways in which environmental, phenotypic and epigenetic factors interact with molecular components (Barnes and Dupré 2008, Dupré 2012, Müller-Wille and Rheinberger 2017. However, countries which adopted and supported the molecular approach -also including Japan, China and Singapore -continue to set the standards for what counts as 'good science' worldwide.…”

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Global Data Quality Assessment and the Situated Nature of “Best” Research Practices in Biology

Leonelli

2017

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“…4 Limitations to the neo-Darwinist view of evolution assumed by Evolutionary Psychology are discussed in Dupré 2010. 5 The political versatility of scientific findings is illustrated in some detail in the second half of Barnes and Dupré 2008 with respect to genetics and genomics. What we describe there as 'astrological genetics' the vulgar view that sees details of human behaviour ineluctably inscribed in genes, would be difficult to deploy in a politically progressive way.…”

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