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Man's many-sided biological identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Pierre Karli
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Abstract

Far from being a simple and monolithic notion, man's biological identity embraces several closely related – but nevertheless partially autonomous – facets. Both the molecular identity and the easily identifiable body and face morphology derive quite directly from a unique set of genes. But the latter interacts, in a highly complex way, with a unique life-history in the progressive moulding of all the individual characteristics of brain functioning that underlie an individualized and evolving mental life, with the attitudes and behaviours that express it.

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Focus: Personality and identity
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European Review , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1999, pp. 105 - 111
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 1999

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