Article ID: CBB000009023

A note on the origin of the term “nature and nurture” (1979)

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Description First popularized--if not actually coined--by Galton in 1874. Probably inspired by the work of Alphonse de Candolle.


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Authors & Contributors
Waller, John C.
Fancher, Raymond E.
Adam Krashniak
Smith, Elise Juzda
Pereira Martins, Lilian Al-Chueyr
Winston, Andrew S.
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Vesalius
Studies in History of Biology
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Springer Nature
Johns Hopkins University Press
Bloomsbury
American Psychological Association
Concepts
Eugenics
Heredity
Human genetics
Biology
Psychology
Science and race
People
Galton, Francis
Weldon, Walter Frank Raphael
Jacobs, Joseph
Roberts, Charles
Vries, Hugo Marie de
Wright, Sewall
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Ancient
18th century
Places
Great Britain
England
United States
South Africa
British Isles
Institutions
Cambridge University
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