Killer Instinct : : The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America / / Nadine Weidman.
A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurture became so entrenched in the popular sciences of animal and human behavior. Are humans innately aggressive or innately cooperative? In the 1960s, best...
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Weidman, Nadine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Killer Instinct : The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America / Nadine Weidman. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (336 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. The Beast Within -- 1 How Ethology Became Popular -- 2 The Alchemy of Aggression -- 3 Weapons Created Man -- 4 The Biology of Love -- 5 The Aggression Debate -- 6 Sociobiology and Pop Ethology: Contextualizing E. O. Wilson -- 7 Genes and Gender: The Sociobiology Debate -- Conclusion On the Shores of Lake Turkana -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star A historian of science examines key public debates about the fundamental nature of humans to ask why a polarized discourse about nature versus nurture became so entrenched in the popular sciences of animal and human behavior. Are humans innately aggressive or innately cooperative? In the 1960s, bestselling books enthralled American readers with the startling claim that humans possessed an instinct for violence inherited from primate ancestors. Critics responded that humans were inherently loving and altruistic. The resulting debate—fiercely contested and highly public—left a lasting impression on the popular science discourse surrounding what it means to be human. Killer Instinct traces how Konrad Lorenz, Robert Ardrey, and their followers drew on the sciences of animal behavior and paleoanthropology to argue that the aggression instinct drove human evolutionary progress. Their message, spread throughout popular media, brought pointed ripostes. Led by the anthropologist Ashley Montagu, opponents presented a rival vision of human nature, equally based in biological evidence, that humans possessed inborn drives toward love and cooperation. Over the course of the debate, however, each side accused the other of holding an extremist position: that behavior was either determined entirely by genes or shaped solely by environment. Nadine Weidman shows that what started as a dispute over the innate tendencies of animals and humans transformed into an opposition between nature and nurture. This polarized formulation proved powerful. When E. O. Wilson introduced his sociobiology in 1975, he tried to rise above the oppositional terms of the aggression debate. But the controversy over Wilson’s work—led by critics like the feminist biologist Ruth Hubbard—was ultimately absorbed back into the nature-versus-nurture formulation. Killer Instinct explores what happens and what gets lost when polemics dominate discussions of the science of human nature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Aggressiveness. Human behavior. Nature and nurture United States History 20th century. Science in popular culture United States History 20th century. Sociobiology United States History 20th century. SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Abraham Maslow. Anthony Storr. Cold War social science. Desmond Morris. Pitirim Sorokin. ethology. evolutionary psychology. gender and science. history of emotions. human instincts. science in popular culture. science popularization. sociobiology. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 English 9783110754087 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 9783110753851 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739114 print 9780674983472 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674269651 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674269651 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674269651/original |
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