Relating to the belief that biological factors (like genes or nature) explain most human behavior and social differences.
From biologism + -ic (adjective suffix). Describes arguments or perspectives that reduce complex human phenomena to biological causes.
Biologistic explanations for crime ('criminals are born, not made') have been used to justify everything from eugenics to racism, which is why scientists now emphasize that genes and environment constantly interact.
Carries the same problematic legacy as biologism—used to defend discriminatory policies by conflating biological traits with predetermined social/intellectual limits.
Avoid uncritical use; if discussing biologistic arguments, frame as historically discredited essentialism.
["essentialist","reductive biological reasoning"]
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