Creatures of Cain

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Creatures of Cain

April 8, 2019 at 9:44 pm · Filed under Expeditions

Erika Milam talks about the scientific search for human nature, a project that captured the attention of paleontologists, anthropologists, and primatologists in the years after World War II. Milam is a professor of history at Princeton University. She is the author of Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America.

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BOOK: Creatures of Cain: The Hunt for Human Nature in Cold War America | The Dispersal of Darwin wrote @ August 14, 2019 at 4:06 pm

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