Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - A Comprehensive Textbook 3rd.ed
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry -
A Comprehensive Textbook 3rd.ed
Human beings are complex living organisms that can be characterized by their appearance and behavior ateach point in the life cycle. Many of these characteristics are uniquely human, such as the array of languages that facilitate interpersonal communication and permit a meaningful interplay of ideas and emotions. Other characteristics, such as affection and aggression, are less distinctive and place our species as one among many that populate the earth. Scientific advances over the past 150 years clearly indicate that hereditary factors are transmitted from generation to generation and account for much of the observed variation among and within species. Although the complexities of human existence cannot be reduced simply to the effects of genes, it is inescapable that genetic factors provide the biological basis for many of our potentialities and vulnerabilities as human beings
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TIME Magazine July 10, 2006 Vol. 168 No. 2
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TIME Magazine
July 10, 2006 Vol. 168 No. 2
• SOCIETY: The New Science of Siblings - Your parents raised you. Your spouse lives with you. But
it's your brothers and sisters who really shaped you. Surprising research reveals how
• SCIENCE: The Perils of Cloning - Ten years after Dolly's birth, scientists are learning that
clones may not be such perfect copies after all
• ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Who's the Voice of this Generation? - Hemingway's rose like the sun.
Kerouac found his on the road. So why can't today's young novelists express the essence of their
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Tags: Magazine, after, ENTERTAINMENT, Voice, Generation |