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Throughout this book I have tried to anchor all my assertions to some aspects of experimental “reality”. In this closing chapter I shall release this brake and speculate on the broader implications of the somatic selection hypothesis to the human condition. At the outset, two important questions can be posed: can a theory which postulates the inheritance of acquired characters resolve the perennial nature- nurture debate? More importantly, can such a theory allow a better or different approach to the mind-body problem? Whilst the theory may propose useful solutions to the first question it cannot tackle the second without delving into startling areas of the mind-body problem and plunging it into deeper obscurity.
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Steele, E.J. (1979). Speculations on Man, Mind and Matter. In: Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9793-3_6
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