Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

Gillette, A.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-01-18

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780230108455

DOI: 10.1057/9780230608900

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 224.0