Hormones, Heredity, and Race : Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Logan, Cheryl A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tandler, Julius, > 1869-1936.
Steinach, Eugen, > 1861-1944.
Kammerer, Paul, > 1880-1926.
Rejuvenation.
Racism in anthropology.
Physical anthropology.
Nature and nurture.
Inheritance of acquired characters.
Heredity.
Endocrinology.
Adaptation (Biology)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Adaptation (Biologie)
Racisme en anthropologie > Autriche > Vienne > 20e siecle.
Rajeunissement > 20e siecle.
Heredite des caracteres acquis > 20e siecle.
Heredite > Autriche > Vienne > 20e siecle.
Endocrinologie > Autriche > Vienne > 20e siecle.
Heredite et milieu > Autriche > Vienne > 20e siecle.
Anthropologie physique > Autriche > Vienne > 20e siecle.
Prejudice > history
Hormones > history
History, 20th Century
Racial Groups > genetics
Adaptation, Biological
Heredity > genetics
Anthropology, Physical > history
Racism in anthropology > Austria > Vienna > 20th century.
Rejuvenation > 20th century.
Inheritance of acquired characters > 20th century.
Heredity > Austria > Vienna > 20th century.
Endocrinology > Austria > Vienna > 20th century.
Nature and nurture > Austria > Vienna > 20th century.
Physical anthropology > Austria > Vienna > 20th century.
Austria > Vienna.
Vienne (Autriche) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Austria
Vienna (Austria) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813559704

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