Saura Anssi
Department of Molecular Biology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Hereditas. 2014 Dec;151(6):119-22. doi: 10.1111/hrd2.00073.
Two papers published in HEREDITAS between 1921 and 1939 show how the attitude towards race biology changed in the course of the interwar period in the Nordic countries. In the early 1920s race biology was seen to constitute a legitimate science. Ordinary human genetics prevailed, however, over race biology already in the very beginning on the pages of HEREDITAS. Population thinking was introduced into the study of human heredity around the year 1930. It effectively contradicted the concept of the race. Interestingly, HEREDITAS does not carry a single paper on eugenics and sterilization. In 1939 we see a final repudiation of the doctrines on race. Times had changed and the National Socialists had usurped the doctrines of race in Germany.
1921年至1939年间发表在《遗传》杂志上的两篇论文表明，北欧国家在两次世界大战之间的时期里，对种族生物学的态度是如何变化的。在20世纪20年代早期，种族生物学被视为一门合法的科学。然而，在《遗传》杂志创刊之初，普通人类遗传学就已经比种族生物学更受关注。大约在1930年，群体思想被引入人类遗传学研究。它有效地反驳了种族概念。有趣的是，《遗传》杂志上没有一篇关于优生学和绝育的论文。1939年，我们看到了对种族学说的最终摒弃。时代已经改变，纳粹党人在德国盗用了种族学说。
