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Nicholas Wright Gillham. A Life of Sir F

Nicholas Wright Gillham. A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 416 pp. $35.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-19-514365-5.. Gerald Sweeney. “Fighting for the Good Cause”: Reflections on Francis Galton's Legacy to American Hereditarian Psychology. Independence Square, PA: American Philosophical Society, 2001. 136 pp. $18.00 (paper). ISBN 0-87169-912-5.

✍ Michael J. Root 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 249 KB

One of the most remarkable developments in psychology in the last decade has certainly been the efflorescence of popular evolutionary psychology. From Robert Wright to Matt Ridley, from David Buss to David Barash, the number of books purporting to show that humans possess a genetically based, natura