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Great Is Their Sin

2015-08-10

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The roots of biological determinism are ancient. Yet despite advances in biological science in the twentieth century, determinist thinking has not been eliminated. This article reviews the history of biological determinism, examining its varieties from its creationist beginnings to present-day biological thinking in the age of genomics. It elucidates the relationship between biological determinism and racialist un...

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Literature Corpus work: ee541883-eec0-564d-bbb6-6f52c44b361a
DOI: 10.1177/0002716215586558

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