CRIM 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cystic Fibrosis, Juvenile Delinquency, Sampling Bias
5 Jul 2016
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The question of biology, crime and the environment. Do genes affect the way we write: the way we write is affected by our physical ability. How dexterous we are/how well we manipulate objects with our fingers. Dexterity could be determined by genetics: however, the way we write is also determined by non-genetic factors. Conditions in womb affect how our hands/fingers develop, later affecting dexterity. We aren"t born knowing how to write, we learn how. We are taught, and incorporate the script from these teachings and from important people in our lives into how we model our own script. Other environmental conditions, like breaking a hand early in life: therefore, writing is almost entirely a learned behavior therefore the question should be re-framed. What makes us as a species capable of writing: things we have that other animals do not. Opposable thumbs: genes produce the specific attributes of the physical body that make us capable of writing.
