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The triumph of evolution : the heredity-environment controversy, 1900-1941 / Hamilton Cravens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cravens, Hamilton.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature and nurture--History.
- Nature and nurture.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 351 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.
- Summary:
- 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 how heredity and environment together shaped human nature and culture.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978.
- Bibliography: pages 277-288.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0801837421
- OCLC:
- 18164753
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- Publisher description
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