Anthropology 2222F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sociobiology, Sociobiology Study Group, Ethology
1 Mar 2017
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Tuesday, october 6, 2015 anthro 2222: lecture 6 notes. Men and women get jealous about different things . It"s nature, not nurture: personality lies in genes, twins study shows . Particularly focused on self-control and other personality traits that contribute to our chances of success in life . Recall: boas and the rise of anthropology as a response to biological determinism . Disproved thinking that privileged biological factors in explaining human diversity. Culture and social contexts (i. e. nurture ) matters as well. Boas" signi cance as a public intellectual at a time of powerful and problematic ideas regarding race and eugenics. Recall: thinking about race (and cranial form) Boas saw both innate endowment and learning - heredity and environment - as signi cant factors in the making of the mature individual . Studying adolescence to nd out more about nature/nurture debate. Early 20th century american psychologist g. stanley hall.
