The Triumph of Evolution: American Scientists and the Heredity-Environment Controversy, 19-1941

by Hamilton Cravens

Book Overview

Hamilton Cravens challenges widespread belief to argue that the impact of evolutionary ideas on American culture and science has been greater since the collapse of Social Darwinism. he portrays a new generation of American scientists whose pioneering work led to the bitterly debated heredity-environment controversy in the 1920s and then, in the '30s, to a "synthetic" theory of the way heredity and environment together have shaped human nature and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812277449
• ISBN13: 9780812277449
• Release Date: July 1978
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Other than the title...

This is an excellent, easy to read history of the heredity-environment controversy. The amount of details and research is impressive and would be very helpful to anyone doing a study on the subject (I was just reading it out of interest). Other than the odd title--the evolution controversy is virtually untouched in this book--this book delivers what it promises and more.