The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941 (Anniversary Collection) - Hardcover

Cravens, Hamilton

 
9780812277449: The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 1900-1941 (Anniversary Collection)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0812277449 ISBN 13: 9780812277449
Verlag: UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR, 1978

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Verlag
UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1978
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0812277449
ISBN 13 
9780812277449
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
376
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