The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture is a book by Evelyn Fox Keller, an American historian of science, about the nature–nurture debate. It was first published in June 2010 by Duke University Press.[1] The book is unusually short, as it is a mere 107 pages long. Furthermore, just 84 of these pages represent the actual text of the book, as opposed to its notes, index, or bibliography.[2]
David Moore reviewed The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture favorably in the journal Science & Education. He concluded, "For its careful analysis of the causes of the confusion that continues to keep the nature/nurture debate alive long after it has become clear that the questions motivating the debate have been ill-formed, Fox Keller’s book can be highly recommended for classroom teachers or teacher educators."[2] Nadine Weidman of Harvard University praised the book as "concise and clearly written", concluding that it "...should be required reading for all those scientists, popularizers, and reporters whose claims for genetic causation of traits commit the very errors that [Keller's] analysis so skillfully elucidates."[3] Similarly, John P. Jackson, Jr. of the University of Colorado Boulder commended the book for shedding light on linguistic misunderstandings that pervade many discussions on human genetics.[4] David Depew concluded his review of Keller's book by referring to it as "a very helpful book" for emphasizing that DNA is only one of many developmental resources involved in the production of phenotypes.[5] Other scholars who reviewed Mirage favorably include Michael Ruse,[6]Lorraine Daston,[7] and Richard Lewontin.[8] Philosopher Neven Sesardic wrote a less favorable review of Mirage, describing the book as "frustrating". He concluded that "...scientists...will probably find [the book] unhelpful, or even off-putting, that most of the issues they might be interested in are addressed here too quickly, offhandedly, in the unnecessarily abstract or vague terms, and without connecting them with the relevant empirical research."[9]
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^"The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture". Duke University Press. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
^ abMoore, David S. (April 2012). "Evelyn Fox Keller: The Mirage of a Space Between Nature and Nurture: Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8223-4731-6, 107 pages, price: $18.95". Science & Education. 21 (4): 583–590. doi:10.1007/s11191-011-9374-z. ISSN 0926-7220.
^Depew, David (March 2012). "The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture. By Evelyn Fox Keller. Durham (North Carolina): Duke University Press. $64.95 (hardcover); $18.95 (paper). vii + 107 p.; ill.; index. ISBN 978-0-8223-4714-9 (hc); 978-0-8223-4731-6 (pb). 2010". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 87 (1): 70. doi:10.1086/663919. ISSN 0033-5770.
^Ruse, Michael (December 2011). "Evelyn Fox Keller, The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+107. ISBN 978-0-8223-4731-6. £12.99 (paperback)". The British Journal for the History of Science. 44 (4): 617–618. doi:10.1017/S0007087411001191. ISSN 0007-0874.
^Daston, Lorraine (2014-05-24). "The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture by Evelyn Fox Keller (review)". Common Knowledge. 20 (2): 365–366. doi:10.1215/0961754X-2423007. ISSN 1538-4578.
^Sesardić, Neven (December 2011). "The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture". International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 25 (4): 417–420. doi:10.1080/02698595.2011.623371. ISSN 0269-8595. S2CID 122607267.
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