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

by Cheryl A. Logan

Early in the twentieth century, arguments about "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--Paul Kammerer, Julius Tandler, and Eugen Steinach--who sought to show how the environment could shape heredity through the impact of hormones. It also explores the dynamic of failure through both scientific and social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813559693
• ISBN13: 9780813559698
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary