NOUN
- the philosophical doctrine that heredity is more important than environment in determining intellectual growth
How To Use hereditarianism In A Sentence
- Despite his hereditarianism and eugenicism, Hans kept on wanting to help people by more conventional psychological means.
- After 1890, hereditarianism gained increasing support, due in part to the work of German biologist August Weismann.
- He demonstrated that hereditarianism and environmentalism were not different and opposed traditions in the minds of many Australian social reformers.
- Hence, complete hereditarianism about within-group differences is logically compatible with complete environmentalism about between-group differences.
- In the 1940s, hereditarianism and behaviourism were not independent of each other, but instead fed off each other.