Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780230608900
ISBN-13 : 0230608906
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Book Synopsis Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century by : A. Gillette

Download or read book Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century written by A. Gillette and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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