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Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

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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 behaviourism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behaviour might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-230-10845-5
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publication townNew York
Publication countryUnited States
Publishing date18/01/2011
Edition2007
SeriesPalgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Pages224 pages
LanguageEnglish
IllustrationsIX, 224 p.
Article no.2429146
CatalogsVLB
Data source no.c4234294b09c4d529ee53a89705acad1
Product groupBU558
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AARON GILLETTE is Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston-Downtown, USA.

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