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Margaret Mead
Documentary about the scientific feud between anthropologists Margaret Mead and Derek Freeman over the question of which governs human nature more, nurture or nature?
Three-part documentary series about great yarns from the world of anthropology.
This edition tells the story of the epic clash between Margaret Mead, arguably the most famous anthropologist of all time, and Derek Freeman, the Australian maverick who hounded her for years.
They and their supporters would fight it out over two decades as they struggled with that fundamental question - which governs human nature more, nurture or nature?
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Thu 29 Nov 2007
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