пожалуй, самое внятное изложение того, что произошло с bihevioral genetics (читай - социальная биология, этология и тому подобное):

... the complete discrediting of behavioral genetics following the Nazis and World War II ("eugenics"). Thus the blank slate (that is, the infinite malleability of the brain) became the dominant model, and environment the explanation of all human behavior.
This bitter debate still rages on today ... and genetic explanations for human behavior are now widely accepted. Accepted, that is, by scientists in such fields as evolutionary psychology and behavioral genetics, but definitely not accepted by academic psychologists and child development experts. They continue to dispense advice about how we should parent our children (Benjamin Spock lives on!) and have continued to willfully underestimate the genetic role in human behavior.

- из Who We Are & Why, про книжку The Nurture Assumption

в контексте полезно упомянуть Сталина, Лысенко, и прочих вейсманистов-морганистов, ага. Демократия и свобода слова на марше, в общем.  ¶ 9:10 PM