Science, Sulloway, and Birth Order: An Ordeal and an Assessment.
This issue of Politics and the Life Sciences includes an article, ten commentaries, and three responses on the subject of birth order and rebelliousness, focusing in particular on Frank Sulloway's Born to Rebel (1996, 1997). Extraordinary events have surrounded the publication of this roundtable, in...
| Publicado en: | Politics & the Life Sciences Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 211 - 246 |
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Association for Politics & the Life Sciences
September 2000
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