What's Normal?: Reconciling Biology and Culture

Since the emergence of Western philosophy and science among the classical Greeks, debates have raged over the relative significance of biology and culture on an individual's behavior. Today, recent advances in genetics and biological science have pushed most scholars past the tired nature vs. nurture debate to examine the ways in which the natural and the social interact to influence human behavior.

In What's Normal?, Allan Horwitz brings a fresh approach to this emerging perspective. Rathe...