“Despite his hereditarianism and eugenicism, Hans kept on wanting to help people by more conventional psychological means.”
“In the 1940s, hereditarianism and behaviourism were not independent of each other, but instead fed off each other.”
“After 1890, hereditarianism gained increasing support, due in part to the work of German biologist August Weismann.”
heredity
Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.