Testimony and Human Nature

Testimony and Human Nature

Human nature theologically and philosophically viewed

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Bad nature, bad nurture, and testimony regarding MAOA and SLC6A4 genotyping at murder trials.

Recent research-in which subjects were studied longitudinally from childhood until adulthood-has started to clarify how a child's environment and genetic makeup interact to create a violent adolescent or adult. For example, male subjects who were born with a particular allele of the monoamine oxidase A gene and also were maltreated as children had a much greater likelihood of manifesting violen...

Human nature and race

Most scholars argue that ‘race’ has no relation to human nature. A minority contend that it does. I argue that ‘race’ is a cultural category which can become an embodied part of the human experience. This embodiment helps account for the power of the

Evolution and Human Nature

rom an economic perspective on individual decision making, human beings have three key characteristics: preferences, beliefs and rationality. Beliefs are the probabilities with which people think various outcomes will occur, conditional on information that might be available. Preferences are the rankings over the set of gambles that are based on such beliefs over the outcomes. Rationality is th...