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Hormones, heredity, and race : spectacular failure in interwar Vienna /
In the early twentieth century, arguments between "nature" and "nurture" pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists who sought to show how the environment co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Studies in modern science, technology, and the environment.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the early twentieth century, arguments between "nature" and "nurture" pitted a rigid genetic determinism against the idea that genes were flexible and open to environmental change. This book tells the story of three Viennese biologists who sought to show how the environment could shape heredity through the impact of hormones and explores the dynamic of failure in science through both scientific and social lenses. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813559704 0813559707 9781461934967 1461934966 9781299733657 1299733654 |