Legitimating the Sociobiology Debate in American Science
The historiography of the sociobiology debate has maintained that political conditions in the 1970s United States rendered E. O. Wilson's Sociobiology inherently controversial.Scholars have suggested that 1960s antiwar, civil rights, and second-wave feminist movements created a climate that was bound to be hostile to a genetic approach
Authors
- Nayanika Ghosh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6304-6906)
Institutions
- Harvard University Press (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
- Published
- 2025-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2025.55.1.48
- Primary Topic
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00