Kamin of Princeton University has said, 'a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes. Other articles where The Mismeasure of Man is discussed: Stephen Jay Gould: books Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), The Mismeasure of Man (1981), Times Arrow. In a 1981 book, The Mismeasure of Man, the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould asserted that Morton, believing that brain size was a measure of intelligence, had subconsciously manipulated the. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould Penguin, 1997 - Ability - 444 pages 11 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified Exposes the. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. Finalist, National Book Awards 1982 for Science - Hardcover. 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.

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.Īnd 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 definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.

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