Adjective : hereditarian theories. From Dictionary.com.
He argues in favor of hereditarianism by attacking critics. From Wordnik.com. [Heritability] Reference
Rowling... has simply updated feudal hereditarianism for the Mendelian Age. From Wordnik.com. [Race and Inheritance] Reference
In addition, the rise of eugenics was fed by traditional views on “bloodlines” and hereditarianism, Victorian ideas on class and aristocracy, conservative socio-economic theories, positivist philosophy, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment in the US, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
People were also already aware of the predictable demographic effects of differential reproduction between the ruling and “lower” classes, and of course hereditarianism with respect to human qualities that were perceived to be associated with socio-economic status was prevalent at the time. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Consistent with this hereditarianism, Clark believed in the gradual upward tendency of humanity, slowly erected on the equivocal and painfully accumulated achievements of past struggles. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
Critics of sociobiology and hereditarianism over IQ included biologists, philosophers and many social scientists as well as many left-leaning political and social activists (See Gould (1981). From Wordnik.com. [Heritability] Reference
The same article's author wrote that "the fund's hereditarianism forms a kind of dogma that leads it to venture well away from strictly scientific topics to shape the larger debate over policy implications. From Wordnik.com. ['The Bell Curve' and Its Sources] Reference
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