Lickliter Robert, Honeycutt Hunter
Department of Psychology, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA.
Psychol Bull. 2003 Nov;129(6):819-35. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.129.6.819.
There has been a conceptual revolution in the biological sciences over the past several decades. Evidence from genetics, embryology, and developmental biology has converged to offer a more epigenetic, contingent, and dynamic view of how organisms develop. Despite these advances, arguments for the heuristic value of a gene-centered, predeterministic approach to the study of human behavior and development have become increasingly evident in the psychological sciences during this time. In this article, the authors review recent advances in genetics, embryology, and developmental biology that have transformed contemporary developmental and evolutionary theory and explore how these advances challenge gene-centered explanations of human behavior that ignore the complex, highly coordinated system of regulatory dynamics involved in development and evolution.
在过去几十年里，生物科学领域发生了一场概念上的革命。来自遗传学、胚胎学和发育生物学的证据汇聚在一起，为生物体如何发育提供了一种更加表观遗传、偶然且动态的观点。尽管有这些进展，但在这段时间里，以基因为中心的、预定论的方法在研究人类行为和发育方面的启发式价值的观点在心理科学中变得越来越明显。在本文中，作者回顾了遗传学、胚胎学和发育生物学的最新进展，这些进展改变了当代发育和进化理论，并探讨了这些进展如何挑战那些忽视发育和进化中所涉及的复杂、高度协调的调控动力学系统的以基因为中心的人类行为解释。
