Killer Instinct: The Popular Science Of Human Nature In Twentieth-Century America

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or cooperative-eventually receded, but the oppositional nature-nurture binary created in the course of the debate left a lasting legacy that would underpin subsequent discussions of human behavior.

• | By (Author): Nadine Weidman
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 26, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0674983475
• | ISBN-13: 9780674983472