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The Mismeasure of Man

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The Mismeasure of ManAnd 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. In this edition Dr. 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. Further, he has added five

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. In this edition Dr. 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. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 06/17/1996
ISBN: 9780393314250
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.48w x 0.89d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner

Review Citations: Discover 03/01/2008 pg. 18
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 8
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