Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the

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.

Aaron Gillette is Assistant Professor of History, University of Houston-Downtown.

Introduction
The Rebirth of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
Foundations for a “New” Synthesis
Recent Studies on Human Sexuality
The Birth of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
The Animal Nature of Humans
Earlier Studies on Human Sexuality
Evolution, Ethics, and Culture
The Death of Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
The Rise of Environmental Behaviorism
Evolutionary Psychology under Attack
The Death of Evolutionary Psychology
The Dark Forest
Conclusion
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Eugenics and the Nature-Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century

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