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hereditarianism

British  
/ həˌrɛdɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm /

noun

  1. psychol a school of thought that emphasizes the influence of heredity in the determination of human behaviour Compare environmentalism

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For both Yudell and Sussman, the antidote to eugenic hereditarianism was cultural anthropology, developed by Franz Boas and his students in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

From Nature • Sep. 16, 2014

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