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Nadine Weidman has written a brilliant and elegant book. If you've ever wondered about the real reasons human beings act one way or another-and why this search for our root instincts has maintained persistent prominence throughout time-you now have the ideal guide. -Rebecca Lemov, author of Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity With exceptional scholarship and a compelling narrative, Nadine Weidman reveals how the science of an essentialized 'human nature' was constructed, popularized, and fought over in the 1950s through the 1980s. Focusing on the work of Konrad Lorenz, Ashley Montagu, Robert Ardrey, E. O. Wilson, and Ruth Hubbard, Weidman provides an important new understanding of the history of instinct, aggression, and 'popular science.' -Andrew S. Winston, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph

Nadine Weidman has written a brilliant and elegant book. If you've ever wondered about the real reasons human beings act one way or another-and why this search for our root instincts has maintained persistent prominence throughout time-you now have the ideal guide. -- Rebecca Lemov, author of <i>Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity</i>

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Nadine Weidman is Lecturer on the History of Science at Harvard University and teaches in the Psychology Department at Boston College. She is the author of Constructing Scientific Psychology, coauthor of Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction, and editor of the journal History of Psychology.

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