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sociogenomics

sociogenomics noun: the study of the multivariate feedback loops by which nature and nurture (genetics and environment) interact with and shape each other.

Noun

sociogenomics (uncountable)

  1. The study of the multivariate feedback loops by which nature and nurture (genetics and environment) interact with and shape each other.
    • Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we are has dominated the human sciences. Do genes determine our destiny, as the hereditarians would say? Or do we enter the world as blank slates, formed only by what we encounter in our...2025 March 13, Dalton Conley, “A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way”, in New York Times

Origin of sociogenomics

From socio- + genomics.

Questions about sociogenomics

What does sociogenomics mean?
Sociogenomics means the study of the multivariate feedback loops by which nature and nurture (genetics and environment) interact with and shape each other.
What part of speech is sociogenomics?
Sociogenomics is a noun.

Words near sociogenomics in the dictionary

  1. sociogenetically
  2. sociogenetics
  3. sociogenic
  4. sociogenically
  5. sociogenomic
  6. sociogenomics
  7. sociogeny
  8. sociogeographic
  9. sociogeographical
  10. sociogeographically
  11. sociogeographies

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