The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

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BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD IN NORTON PAPERBACK EVER SINCE DARWIN Reflections in Natural History THE PANDA'S THUMB More Reflections in ...

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To the memory of Grammy and Papa Joe, who came, struggled, and prospered, Mr. Goddard notwithstanding. ...

Contents Acknowledgments 15 Introduction to the Revised and Expanded Edition: Thoughts at Age Fifteen 19 The frame of The Mismea ...

IO CONTENTS Conclusions The American school and slavery, 101 3. Measuring Heads: Paul Br oca and the Heyday ofCraniology / -4f^" ...

CONTENTS II 5. The Hereditarian Theory of IQ: An American Alfred Binet and the original purposes of the Binet scale, 176 Binet f ...

CONTENTS THE ARMY TESTS AND AGITATION TO RESTRICT IMMIGRATION I BRIGHAM'S MONOGRAPH ON AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE THE TRIUMPH OF REST ...

CONTENTS 13 Critique of The Bell Curve 367 The Bell Curvv. 367 Disingenuoumess of content Disingenuousness^of argument Disingenu ...

Acknowledgments GENES MAY BE SELFISH in a limited metaphorical sense, but there can be no gene for selfishness when I have so ma ...

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Introduction to the Revised and Expanded Edition Thoughts at Age Fifteen The frame of The Mismeasure of Man The original title f ...

20 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN bookstore clerk: "I want a copy of that book whose title I can't pro- nounce by the author whose name I ...

REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION 21 see who liked to mouth off without reading the book first—like Mr. Dole criticizing the violence ...

22 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN The Mismeasure of Man. Phrenologists celebrated the theory of richly multiple and independent intellige ...

REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION 23 the rapiers of rhetoric, or the tendentious arguments of our current and largely derivative glad ...

24 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN hence the necessity for this book and its focus upon the enduring sources of continual recurrence. As I ...

REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION (^25) writing, and have never dabbled—with one small exception as a personal favor to a dear, older ...