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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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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