Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. The mismeasure of man (1997 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning. And yet the idea of innate limits-of biology as destiny-dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould, 1997, Penguin edition, in English - Rev. We must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.
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