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“Culling The Herd”: Eugenics And The Conservation Movement In The United States, 1900–1940, Garland E. Allen
“Culling The Herd”: Eugenics And The Conservation Movement In The United States, 1900–1940, Garland E. Allen
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While from a late twentieth- and early twenty-first century perspective, the ideologies of eugenics (controlled reproduction to eliminate the genetically unfit and promote the reproduction of the genetically fit) and environmental conservation and preservation, may seem incompatible, they were promoted simultaneously by a number of figures in the progressive era in the decades between 1900 and 1950. Common to the two movements were the desire to preserve the ‘‘best’’ in both the germ plasm of the human population and natural environments (including not only natural resources, but also undisturbed nature preserves such as state and national parks and forests). In …
Aaron Gillette , Eugenics And The Nature Nurture Debate In The Twentieth Century, Garland E. Allen
Aaron Gillette , Eugenics And The Nature Nurture Debate In The Twentieth Century, Garland E. Allen
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Aaron Gillette, Eugenics and the Nature–Nurture Debate in the Twentieth Century, Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology [2007], digital reprint (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. ix, 239, index, £18.99, paperback, ISBN: 9780230108455. This book treats an important subject – the history of the nature–nurture debate (focused on the US but with references to European players and movements) – and its implications for current theories of evolutionary psychology.