RESOURCES

Libraries and other bookshelves, reference librarians, experts, the Internet, your own experiences and observations...I urge you to use them all. Some of the material will assuredly make more sense with the help of a text or two...any recent text on genetics or some of the specific topics may be helpful.

There TWO books that you'll need for sure...

1. excerpts from Nature via Nurture by Matt Ridley (2003, Harper Collins/Publishing Co; New York) -- obtainable through Border's or Barnes and Noble, as well as other bookstores in-person or online.
   
   This book is a survey across the spectrum of research on the roles and contributions of environment and genetics to how and what we are. The ideas about the interaction of genes and environment apply throughout the realm of human traits. It's 'how we think about these things' that will be important for developing this competence as much the topics and specific aspects of our lives we are looking at. Other students have told me this book is very readable. .. complex at times.. but readable.
   
2. portions of Ten Theories of Human Nature, 4th Edition by Leslie Forster Stevenson and David Haberman (2004; Oxford University Press) -- also obtainable at the usual bookstores online and in-person.
   
   This book is a survey of perspectives on the nature of human nature... and approaches to comparing one to another.

Throughout the learning activities, you will find to various web pages that should help you out with the material. Below is a list of some resources that you will probably find helpful at one point or another in your work...or maybe just interesting for their own sake.

• Another book that focuses specifically on human behavior is Nature and Nurture by Robert Plomin (1990, Brooks/Cole Publishing Co, Pacific Grove, CA). This may be a bit difficult to put your hands on but it is worth a little effort.. Some of the details are getting out-of-date and could be filled in with more recent information, which you may want to do as part of one of your activities for this independent study... but like Ridley's book, it is a clear introduction to ways of thinking about gene-environment interactions and the nature of our 'nature.'
  
• Genetics Education Center... a resource page with many, many links to genetics information.
  
  
• Glossary of Genetic Terms
  
  
• Human Genome Project (National Human Genome Research Institute)
  
  
• Human Genome Project Information - a pdf or set of PowerPoint slides that covers terminology and the implications of what mapping the human genome may bring us
  
  
• Ethical, Legal, Social Implications of Human Genome Project (resource page)
  
  
• Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1739-40)
  
  
• On Abraham Maslow...www.maslow.com/index.html
  
  
• Stephen J. Gould on Human Nature... saved from url=http://www.ping.be/jvwit/Gouldhumannature.html
  

• DePaul Libraries Home Page ...for ready access to lots of databases; if you're not sure how to use the databases, check in with DePaul librarian or me.

• Internet Public Library Reference Section...if you want to skip the preliminaries.

• Citing Sources...another link from the Internet Public Library...a variety of references on how to cite the sources you use.
  

• Images of DNA...I've put a few on these web pages, but there are more.

• Mapping Our Genes: The Genome Project and the Future of Medicine by Lois Wingerson, Dutton, New York 1990 ISBN: 0-525-24877-3.

   

• http://www.findarticles.com/PI/index.jhtml - great website where you can look up articles through alphabet search.

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  http://www.healthandage.com – this website has some wonderful articles on genetics, environment and obesity. I used this information for my body mass E-1 activity.

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - this website (the National Library of Medicine) is a wonderful resource. Sometimes gets a little technical, but informative none-the-less.

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  PLEASE...if you find some resources that you think are particularly clear and would be useful to other students, lemme know; you're probably a better judge than I am about resources that have helped you out. I'll add them to this page.