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Genoeconomics: Promises and Caveats for a New Field
Author(s) -
Navarro Arcadi
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04732.x
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , focus (optics) , rest (music) , data science , engineering ethics , epistemology , computer science , engineering , medicine , philosophy , physics , mathematics , pure mathematics , optics , cardiology
Since the publication 150 years ago of the Origin of Species, the scientific study of the evolution of human‐specific traits has been the focus of many efforts from very different areas of science. Nowadays, after a century and a half of research, impressive results have accumulated, particularly about those traits that presumably would “make us human,” setting us apart from the rest of primates, and about how these traits would have evolved. Over the last few years, a new area of research, genoeconomics, has started to make important contributions toward the study of hominization. Here, I review the foundations and promises of this new branch of science and discuss a few of the pitfalls that may hinder its advance.