Categorii: Neclasificate
Limba: Engleza
Data publicării: 2011
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan
Tip copertă: Paperback
Nr Pag: 252
ISBN: 9780230108455
Dimensiuni: l: 14cm | H: 21.6cm
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.