Michael Rossi

Michael Rossi is a historian of medicine at the University of Chicago and the author of The Republic of Colour: Science, Perception and the Making of Modern America.

Consider Jack and Oskar: Twin Studies

Michael Rossi, 7 February 2013

In a tongue-in-cheek editorial in the February 1927 issue of the Journal of Educational Research, the psychologist Guy Whipple announced that ‘the age-old perplexity of heredity has been banished; the old riddle of nature versus nurture has been solved.’ For the previous half-century, psychologists, geneticists, pedagogists and eugenicists had been trying to determine how...

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