hereditarianism

Supporters of hereditarianism reject this sense of biological determinism for most cases.

Both scholarly and popular ideas of hereditarianism played an important role in the attack and backlash that followed the Brown decision.

Hereditarianism is sometimes used as a synonym for biological or genetic determinism, though some scholars distinguish the two terms.

Theories opposed to hereditarianism include behaviorism, social determinism and environmental determinism.

Many of the publication's contributors, publishers, and Board of Directors espouse academic hereditarianism.

Rowe's work frequently supported hereditarianism.

It is criticized for a claimed extremist right-wing politics, anti-Semitic bent, and espousing academic hereditarianism.

Philosopher Peter Singer describes his vision of a new liberal political view that embraces hereditarianism in his 1999 book.

Hereditarianism is the doctrine or school of thought that heredity plays a significant role in determining human nature and character traits, such as intelligence and personality.

Mehler B. Heredity and Hereditarianism.

However, the historical correspondence between hereditarianism and conservatism has broken down at least among proponents of hereditarianism.

Baker rejected the methodological relativism that has characterized anthropology since the days of Franz Boas, instead going back to earlier ideas of hereditarianism and cultural evolution.

His atheist views, his contradictory and somewhat unscientific analyses, his dismissive attitude towards women, and his convinced hereditarianism created notoriety and left him isolated.

He is a major proponent of the hereditarianism position in the nature versus nurture debate, the position that concludes genetics play a significant role in behavioral traits, such as intelligence (trait) and personality psychology.

In his first article, Heritability and Causality (Sesardic 1993), Sesardic argues that the environmentalist criticism of hereditarianism greatly exaggerate in claiming that the explanation of human behavior in terms of genes is faced with methodological problems and flaws.

Snyderman and Rothman claimed that the media had misrepresented the views of experts, so that the public now believed that it was impossible to define intelligence, that IQ or aptitude tests were outmoded and that environmentalism and hereditarianism were incompatible points of view.