The Triumph of Evolution: The Heredity-environment Controversy, 1900-1941

ISBN-10: 0801837421
ISBN-13: 9780801837425
Series: The Triumph of Evolution
Pages: 351
Language: English
Published: 1988
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Author: Hamilton Cravens

Description

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.