Genetic reductionism
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Genetic reductionism
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Genetic reductionism is the belief that understanding genes is sufficient to understand all aspects of human behavior. It is a specific form of reductionism and of biological determinism, based on a perspective which defines genes as distinct units of information with consistent properties. It also covers attempts to define specific phenomena in exclusively genetic terms, as in the case of the "warrior gene". The concept has been criticized by many biologists. According to Affifi (2017), "With t
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Belief that genetics explains all aspects of human behavior
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2024-03-09T20:31:49Z
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