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Crossing the ‘explanatory divide’: a bridge to nowhere?

Author(s) -

Neven Sesardić

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyv055

Subject(s) - bridge (graph theory) , explanatory model , medicine , epistemology , philosophy , anatomy

We have moved beyond versus. Whether it is medical traits like clinical depression, behavioral traits like criminality, or cognitive traits like intelligence, it is now widely recognized that ‘nature versus nurture’ does not apply. There are no genes for depression such that having the gene ensures the development of depression and lacking the gene ensures resilience to depression. Likewise, there are no environments for depression such that all differences in depression can be explained by pointing to those differences in environment.

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