Genes, Brains, and Human Potential The Science and Ideology of Intelligence

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KEN RICHARDSON GENES, BRAINS, AND HUMAN POTENTIAL Th e Science and Ideology of Intelligence COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK T ...

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Preface vii CONTENTS - 1. PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL - 2. PRETEND GENES ...

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T he causes of variation in human potential— for attributes like intel- ligence, and educational and occupational achievement— a ...

VIII PREFACE deeply fl awed. Th ere is not even an agreed-on theory of how to describe potential or intelligence. And as for dis ...

PREFACE IX ants to humans, and, fi nally, that transformative evolution to human cul- ture and social cognition. Th ey are nothi ...

X PREFACE Th e construction of a genuine biological model of intelligence, and of a new vision of potential, starts in chapter 4 ...

PREFACE XI light on the origins and nature of individual diff erences in social groups, some of which were hinted at by Charles ...

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1. PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowl- edge in the f ...

2 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL frivolous; and slaves subhuman. Th e medieval period in Eu rope in ven ted the Divine Right of Kings. T ...

PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 3 been constant attempts to moderate the message in an awkward nature- nurture debate: individual diff er ...

4 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL However, now something else is also going on; the message is rebound- ing with unpleasant dissonance. I ...

PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 5 institutions of their time. Th ey build models that, like the pre- Copernican model of the sun and plan ...

6 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL Chapters 2 and 3 attempt to lift the fog around those (incredibly perva- sive) ideas. Th e rest of the ...

PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 7 and his place in the British upper class, seized on the idea to scientifi cally vindicate what, to him, ...