hereditarianism

/ həˌrɛdɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm /

noun

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

Example Sentences

Almost all of them were advocates of hereditarianism and eugenics.

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The 1920s and 1930s were the heyday of hereditarianism, the belief that heredity decisively shaped human nature and difference.

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Crude hereditarianism often re-emerges after major advances in biological knowledge: Darwinism begat eugenics; Mendelism begat worse eugenics.

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