Mismeasure of man / Stephen Jay Gould
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Norton, 1996.Description: 444 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780393314250
- 153.93 GOU
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Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award 1981
This book was immediately hailed as a masterwork when first published in 1981, the answer to those who would rank people according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. 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 biologist Gould. In this revised edition, Dr. Gould traces the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness. Further, he has added five essays on questions of "The Bell Curve" in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general.--From publisher description.
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