The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941
Hamilton Cravens challenges widespread belief to argue that the impact of evolutionary ideas on American culture and science has been greater since the collapse of Social Darwinism. he portrays a new generation of American scientists whose pioneering work led to the bitterly debated heredity-environment controversy in the 1920s and then, in the '30s, to a synthetic theory of the way heredity and environment together have shaped human nature and culture. The resolution of this issue seemed to hold an exhilarating promise. If scientists could explain--and even predict--human behavior, they might help restore social control and stability in an a…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-7744-9
- EAN: 9780812277449
- Produktnummer: 36769903
- Verlag: Univ Penn Pr Anniversary Colle
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1978
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.2 cm 703 g
- Gewicht: 703
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CravensHamilton: Hamilton Cravens is Professor of History at Iowa State University at Ames.
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