The Triumph of Evolution
American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 19-1941
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2017
376 pages
978-1-5128-1535-1 (ISBN)
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 "e,synthetic"e, 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 explainand even predicthuman 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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English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
15 illus.
15 illus.
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-1535-1 (9781512815351)
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Hamilton Cravens
The Triumph of Evolution
American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 19-1941
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07/1978
1st Edition
University of Pennsylvania Press
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CravensHamilton:
Hamilton Cravens is Professor of History at Iowa State University at Ames.
Hamilton Cravens is Professor of History at Iowa State University at Ames.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. THE DISCOVERY OF NATURE, 1890-1920
- 2. The Discovery of Culture 1900-1920
- 3. The Heredity Environment Controversy 1915-1941
- 4. The Triumph of Evolution
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
- NOTES
- INDEX
