Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

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,...

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Main Author: Gillette, A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edition:1st ed. 2007.
Series:Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230608900
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