The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 19-1941 - Couverture rigide

Cravens, Hamilton

 
9780812277449: The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 19-1941
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ISBN 10 : 0812277449 ISBN 13 : 9780812277449
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1978

Synopsis

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 age of domestic ferment and international turmoil.

The Triumph of Evolution is the first scholarly history of one of the most significant scientific controversies of the twentieth century.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hamilton Cravens is Professor of History at Iowa State University at Ames.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
1978
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812277449
ISBN 13 
9780812277449
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
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