Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who supports hereditarianism.
- adj. Relating to or based on hereditarianism.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A believer in the biological doctrine of heredity or atavism.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to hereditarianism.
Etymologies
- From hereditary + -an. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But we argued that her statements were racist for defaulting to genetics when there is little to no consensus as to the factors involved in the hereditarian position.”
“But we argued that her statements was racist for defaulting to genetics when there is little to no consensus as to the factors involved in the hereditarian position.”
“I read a rather trenchant critique of the hereditarian position this week just his week in fact, but if I were before that asked to give odds, at least against the purely environmental position explaining the IQ deficits, I would have easily bet against it at 2: 1.”
“I am quite convinced that when the molecular genetic verdict finally arrives, the hereditarian side Arthur Jensen, Richard Lynn, Linda Gottfredson, Phillipe Rushton, Richard Herrnstein, Charles Murray, Henry Harpending, Satoshi Kanazawa et al will be vindicated.”
“I read a rather trenchant critique of the hereditarian position this week just his week in fact, but if I were before that asked to give odds, at least against the purely environmental position explaining the IQ deficits, I would have easily bet against it at 2:1.”
“Turkheimer believes that only research that supports the Boasian environmentalist position should be accepted by the respectable scientific community and that hereditarian views on the race and IQ question are too disgusting to be considered in polite company.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Approaching Arguments That Have A Racist Past
“The Snyderman Rothman survey suggests that academics do believe the hereditarian hypothesis is partly correct.”
“For example, some untenable ideas about the heritability of IQ are a central component of hereditarian explanations of group differences.”
Dan Agin: Black and White in America IV: IQ Myths and Realities
“This time the band of hereditarian psychometricians minced no words: according to them, American blacks were genetically inferior to other Americans in every regard, and these psychometricians insisted they had the data to prove it.”
Dan Agin: Black and White in America III: From Eugenics to Madness
“Are more agricultural countries more hereditarian than industrial countries?”
Seven Hypotheses About Environmental Bias, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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