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14Cognitive developmental biology: History, process and fortune’s wheelCognition 101 (2): 298-332. 2006.
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23Eugenics and Individual Phenotypic Variation: To What Extent Is Biology a Predictive Science?Science in Context 11 (3-4): 331-356. 1998.The ArgumentEugenics, in whatever form it may be articulated, is based on the idea that phenotypic characteristics of particular individuals can be predicted in advance. This paper argues that biology's capacity to predict many of the characteristics exhibited by an individual, especially behavioral or cognitive attributes, will always be very limited. This stems from intrinsic limitations to the methodology for relating genotypes to phenotypes, and from the nature of developmental processes whi…Read more
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McGill UniversityRegular Faculty
Montréal, Quebec, Canada