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ROBERT M. YERKES

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ROBERT M. YERKES
(1876-1956) American psychobiologist who specialized in the study of the thought process of apes. T.L.S. 1p. 4to., New Haven, Dec. 15, 1950, on letterhead of the Yale University School of Medicine to the Amram Scheinfeld, author of You and Heredity. In part: "...I have written to Mr. Dana Lippincott's to thank publisher and author for an advance copy of The New YOU AND HEREDITY which came to me...During the past week I have spent a good part of my time with your most recent creation and altogether I have enjoyed it. As I read I jotted down typographical and other errors which I chanced to recognize and instead of having the sheets typed...I enclose them herewith...". Boldly signed, with a copy of a later letter from the same author responding to Yerkes' aforementioned criticisms. Scheinfeld's work You and Heredity was first published in 1939. It was widely popular with scientists and the public alike for its debunking of racist and homophobic notions voiced by early supporters of eugenics.