DESIGN FOR A LIFE: HOW BEHAVIOUR DEVELOPS

Book ID/图书代码： 00200006B05343

English Summary/英文概要： How and why does each of us grow up to be the person we are? What role do genes play in shaping our behaviour and personalities? Are our characters fixed, or can we change as adults? How does early experience affect our sexual preferences? Why do children play? These are all questions about behavioural development - the lifelong process of growth and change from conception to death that is central to an understanding of human nature. Written in clear and simple language this book offers an understanding of the science that lies behind many current controversies in parenting, education, social policy and medicine. The lucid style, carefully chosen scientific examples and literary quotations make it both accessible and entertaining.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如何和为什么我们每个人的成长并成为我们自己呢?扮演什么角色塑造我们的行为的基因和个性。固定,或者是我们的角色可以改成年人一样吗?我们是如何影响性取向早期的经历吗?为什么孩子玩吗?这些都是关于行为发展的过程——终生生长和变化,从构思到死亡的中心是一个了解人类的天性。在明确和简单的语言写本书提供了一个了解背后的科学,目前的争论,教育,社会政策的父母和药品。在清醒的风格,经过精心挑选的科学的例子,它既可使文学报价和娱乐性。(DJY)

Awards/获奖情况：The human body is an amazing piece of equipment. In this design-oriented age, we are starting to ask more searching and subtle questions about how we came to be this way, and this enjoyable book contributes a great deal of information and insight to the discussion. Bateson, a professor of ethology at Cambridge University, and Martin, who has also studied and lectured at Cambridge, plant themselves in the midst of the traditional opposition between nature and nurture. ’It is obvious that experience, education and culture make a big difference to how people behave, whatever their genetic inheritance. Yet behavioural and psychological development are frequently explained in terms of the exclusive importance of one set of factors, either genetic or environmental,’ the authors write. ’Debates about behavioural and psychological development often degenerate into sweeping assertions about the overriding importance of genes (standing in for ’nature’) or the crucial significance of the environment (which then becomes ’nurture’).’ The authors instead poist the notion of a developmental ’kitchen’, wherein ingredients and method are finely balanced in making up a human personality as time goes by. Rather than paralyse the reader with a barrage of scientific jargon, they summon writers as diverse as Jonathan Swift and Bruce Chatwin to give functional examples of human behaviour. The various chapters take us through the stages of life, examining all sorts of puzzles: the effect a name can have on a child (those with exotic names are more likely to drop out of college courses, a Harvard study found); the peculiar behaviour of identical twins; and whether or not is is possible to change habits after adulthood. This book which pulls together the insights of biology and psychology to give a broader view of the evolutionary process, is deceptively simple in style but brims with stimulating examples.---Kirkus UK

人体是一个了不起的设备。在这个时代,我们有过人之处开始问更多的问题和微妙的搜寻,我们来到这个方式,这令人愉快的书的一大贡献的信息和深入的讨论。贝特森教授、剑桥大学的动物,马丁,谁还研究并曾在剑桥,植物本身在传统的对立先天与后天。“很明显,经验、教育和文化产生巨大影响人们如何做人,不管他们的遗传基因。行为和心理发展还经常来解释这个独家的重要性,一套因子遗传和环境,”作者写道。“辩论行为和心理发展往往沦为清扫断言关于压倒一切的基因(站在“自然”)或环境的重要意义,然后变成“后天(的)。”poist相反的概念、发展的厨房的成分和方法是精细平衡在制定一个有个性的人随着时间的流逝。而不是瘫痪读者的一系列的科学术语,他们召唤作家诸如乔纳森‧斯威夫特和布鲁斯moleskine作为给功能的人类行为。各章节使我们生命中的各个阶段,检查各种难题:一个名字可以有一个孩子(那些奇异的名字都更有可能从大学退学的课程,是哈佛大学的研究发现,特有的行为;同卵双胞胎,是否可能改变习惯在成年之后。这本书,把这个洞见的生物学、心理学给更广阔的视角的演变过程,看似简单的风格,而且与刺激examples.——-Kirkus

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