Thinking about biology and culture: can the natural and human sciences be integrated?

Genomic analyses have shown that only 1.2 per cent of the genome is devoted to protein coding sequences (the most commonly invoked definition of genes), and that much of the remaining sequences are employed in regulation – that is, in responding to signals, first, from the immediate environment of the DNA, but ultimately from the distal environment – from the cytoplasm, from the environment outside the cell, and finally, from the environment beyond the organism. Such signals are not restricted to the simple physical and chemical stimuli that impinge directly on the DNA, on the surface of the cell, or even on the body as a whole: organisms with central nervous systems have receptors for forms of perception that are not only more complex but far longer range. Humans have especially sophisticated perceptual capacities, enabling them to respond to a wide range of complex visual, auditory, linguistic and behavioural/emotional signals in their extended environment. Research has recently begun to show that responses to such signals can extend all the way down to the level of gene expression. The question is this: to what extent are we witnessing (at last) a rapprochement between the natural science of biology and the human sciences of sociology and anthropology, and to what extent do the new promises of synthesis merely reflect an expansion of older reductionist aims, threatening once again to marginalize rather than incorporate the insights of cultural analysis? As in my earlier discussion of the nature/nurture debate (2010), my focus will be restricted to the Anglo-American context.     

新形势下高校"双培"工作面临的突出问题与对策

高校"双培"工作即把高校高知识群体中的优秀分子培养成为党员,把其中优秀党员培养成为党组织负责人,做好该项工作具有重要的历史和现实意义.由于对"双培"工作的重视不够,高校的"双培"工作普遍遇到了一些新的突出问题.新时期做好高校的"双培"工作,必须切实提高高校"双培"工作的针对性、实效性和长效性.     

环境危机意识的培养与教育

分析了全球面临的环境危机及我国的资源环境现状与未来社会经济发展的要求之间的矛盾，论述了加强我国民众环境危机意识教育的作用和意义以及实施环境危机意识教育的措施和手段。     

Nurture net of nature: Re-evaluating the role of shared environments in academic achievement and verbal intelligence

Prominent authors in the behavioral genetics tradition have long argued that shared environments do not meaningfully shape intelligence and academic achievement. However, we argue that these conclusions are erroneous due to large violations of the additivity assumption underlying behavioral genetics methods – that sources of genetic and shared and nonshared environmental variance are independent and non-interactive. This is compounded in some cases by the theoretical equation of the effective and objective environments, where the former is defined by whether siblings are made more or less similar, and the latter by whether siblings are equally subject to the environmental characteristic in question. Using monozygotic twin fixed effects models, which compare outcomes among genetically identical pairs, we show that many characteristics of objectively shared environments significantly moderate the effects of nonshared environments on adolescent academic achievement and verbal intelligence, violating the additivity assumption of behavioral genetic methods. Importantly, these effects would be categorized as nonshared environmental influences in standard twin models despite their roots in shared environments. These findings should encourage caution among those who claim that the frequently trivial variance attributed to shared environments in behavioral genetic models means that families, schools, and neighborhoods do not meaningfully influence these outcomes.     

美育与人的养成

德国伟大的诗人、美学家席勒根据他所处时代人的生存状态、人性的分裂,提出了美育问题.二百多年过去了,美育问题依然是人们非常关注的话题,甚至显得比席勒那个时代更为紧迫.物质至上,急功近利,世俗主义,享乐思想的蔓延,要求我们真正的理解美育问题的内涵及其对人的生命价值导向上的重要作用,从而使人在生存与发展中真正实现和谐与自由.     

双重性格的艾米莉——《我站在这儿熨烫》新探

《我站在这儿熨烫》通过对话式的内心独白表现了一位心力交瘁的母亲对她19岁的女儿成长历程的回忆,展示了人类的天性、欲望和永不枯竭的潜力与抑制、压迫、扭曲、扼杀的现实生活间的碰撞与冲突。本文运用心理学潜意识理论剖析小说中女儿艾米莉的双重性格,揭示她成长过程中天性与环境之间的关系及相互作用。     

对大学思想品德课教学方法的几点思考

大学思想品德课教学要取得良好效果必须建立科学的教学理念，应当以爱心培育作为立足点、以情感教育作为基本手段，并将课堂教学延伸至现实社会，把现实社会作为大学生品德的生长空间。     

班主任工作如何营造培养创新人才的环境

本文从营造环境的角度，论述了学校教育环境与培养创新人才的关系，以及班主任在学校教育环境中所起的作用，重点阐述了班主任工作在营造培养创新人才环境中的具体做法。     

在非生物专业类学生中开设生命科学课之浅析

从高等教育发展的需要，生命科学发展的需要，社会和经济发展的需要以及知识经济时代对大学生综合素质的要求这4个方面，浅析了在高校非生物专业类学生中开设生命科学选修课的必要性。     

大力弘扬和培育泰山精神

泰山精神是以泰山为载体的山岳文化精神,它是在悠久的历史文化积淀中形成并随着时代的发展而发展的。泰山精神的基本内涵是:积极向上的攀登精神,朝气蓬勃的旭日活力,居高不傲的海天之怀,重如泰山的价值取向,傲视风雪的松柏性格,扶正压邪的敢当正气,吃苦耐劳的挑夫品德,矢志不渝的归根情结。泰山精神是中华民族精神的重要组成部分,弘扬和培育泰山精神有着重要的意义。