The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 341 Epilogue: Arthur Jensen and the resurrection of Spearman's g When I researched this chapter in ...

THE MISMKASURE O F M A N can be ordered onag scale from amoebae at the bottom (p. 175) to extraterrestrial intelligences at the ...

THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT 349 roughly scalable along ag dimension.. .g can be viewed as an interspecies concept with a broad ...

35 ° THE MISMEASURE OF MAN innate deficiency of intelligence among blacks. He cites the quota- tion on p. 271 as "Spearman's int ...

SEVEN A Positive Conclusion WALT WHITMAN, that great man of little brain (see p.124), advised us to "make much of negatives," an ...

THE MISMEASURE OF MAN wrong about the origin of species, but Cuvier's brand of creation- ism was not an emptier or less-develope ...

A POSITIVE CONCLUSION 353 Homo sapiens—would then have faced all the moral dilemmas involved in treating a human species of disd ...

354 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Biology and human nature If people are so similar genetically, and if previous claims for a direct bio ...

A POSITIVE CONCLUSION 355 Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in th ...

356 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Most biologists would follow my argument in denying a genetic basis for most behavioral differences be ...

A POSITIVE CONCLUSION 357 therefore have a genetic basis, since natural selection cannot operate in the absence of genetic varia ...

358 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN theory, called optimal foraging strategy, for studying patterns of exploitation in nature (herbivores ...

A POSITIVE CONCLUSION 359 engendered controversy. The contentious subjects are specific behaviors that distress us and that we s ...

THE MISMEASURE OF MAN answer to it is yes." As evidence, Wilson cites the prevalence of warfare in history and then discounts an ...

A POSITIVE CONCLUSION 36 i tally a theory about limits. It takes current ranges in modern envi- ronments as an expression of dir ...

7*1 A juvenile and adult chimpanzee showing the greater resemblance of humans to the baby and illustrating the princi- ple of ne ...

A POSITIVE CONCLUSION 563 did not read, write, or wonder why most stars do not change their reladve positions while five wanderi ...

364 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN "Please God, I think that you made me in the shape which I now have for reasons best known to Yourselv ...

Epilogue IN 1927 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., delivered the Supreme Court's decision upholding the Virginia sterilization law in ...

366 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Carrie Buck, then in her seventies, was still living near Char- lottesville. Several journalists and s ...