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Comprehending the Body in the Era of the Epigenome

2015-03-18

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This paper suggests that it is urgent for anthropologists to respond to a current move in epigenetics in which nature and nurture are no longer understood as dichotomous elements. It is argued that a neobiological reductionism is currently taking shape due to molecularization of the environment by epigeneticists. Anthropological concepts of embodiment should be retheorized in light of this development. The formati...

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Literature Corpus work: 68b60cc3-5d09-5dea-a0fc-592728c4baed
DOI: 10.1086/680350

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