Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and the feasib

This book, first published in 1938, is based on the Muirhead Lectures given at Birmingham University in February and March of 1937. The first half of this book

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addre

The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of the concept of heredity, from the Early Modern understanding of

John Waller describes the changing ideas concerning heredity from antiquity to the modern biological understanding, considering both the efforts over the centur