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1 online resource (viii, 224 pages) |
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. The rebirth of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology -- 1. Foundations for a "new" synthesis -- 2. Recent studies on human sexuality -- pt. 2. The birth of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology -- 3. The animal nature of humans -- 4. Earlier studies on human sexuality -- 5. Evolution, ethics, and culture -- pt. 3. The death of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology -- 6. The rise of environmental behaviorism -- 7. Evolutionary psychology under attack -- 8. The death of evolutionary psychology -- 9. Lost in the wilderness -- Conclusion -- List of abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 behaviorism and the reaction against eugenics in the 1930s, any scientific claims that behavior might be influenced by heredity were suppressed for ideological reasons |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Eugenics.
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Evolutionary psychology.
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Social ethics.
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Eugenics
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Social & cultural history.
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History of medicine.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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History.
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Eugenics
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Evolutionary psychology
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Social ethics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230608900 |
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0230608906 |
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1281780944 |
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9781281780942 |
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9781349539710 |
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1349539716 |
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