Replay: Creatures of Cain

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Replay: Creatures of Cain

November 1, 2019 at 8:00 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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