Killer instinct : the popular science of human nature in twentieth-century America / Nadine Weidman.
| Author/creator | Weidman, Nadine M., 1966- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | vii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: The beast within -- How ethology became popular -- The alchemy of aggression -- Weapons created man -- The biology of love -- The aggression debate -- Sociobiology and pop ethology: contextualizing E. O. Wilson -- Genes and gender: the sociobiology debate -- Conclusion: On the shores of Lake Turkana. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780674269651 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021010914 |
| ISBN | 9780674983472 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0674983475 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |