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Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1403984220, 9781403984227, 9780230608900
Open Library ID
OL11642939M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1160648 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
240\235
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviorism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behavior might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.

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