FeralChildren.com says A discussions of the effects of heredity and environment, a review of historial cases, and reproductions of Itard's original works on Victor of Aveyron.

Product Description The idea that man has no nature, Malson begins, is now beyond dispute. He has or rather is a history. In these provocative words, which form the theme of this essay, Malson carries one step further the assumption of behaviorists, structural functionalists, cultural anthropologists, and evolutionists that human nature is a constant. If the content of the analysis made by anthropologists is not affected by a human nature that lies outside of history, humanity to all effects and purposes becomes its history. So-called wolf children are children abandoned at an early age and found leading an isolated existence. They are thus natural examples of complete social deprivation and Malson explores their history in this complete study. His essay is followed by Itard's account of Victor, a wolf child found in the forests of central France at the end of the eighteenth century. Itard's two reports have become a classic of psychological and educational literature, and are presented here as the most important first-hand account of a wolf child.