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In the current heated discussions of hereditary vs. environmental impacts on IQ, Gould's National Book Critics' Circle Award-winning book deserves a hearing.
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The Inferiority Complex
The first meeting of Oliver Twist and young Jack Dawkins, the Artful Dodger, on the road to London was a confrontation between two stereotypes of nineteenth-century literature. The Dodger was a “snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy…with rather b ... (read full critics)
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Human Worth Reduced to a Number
Our world is a poorer place without the insight of the late Stephen Jay Gould.
This book is a concise history and reaction to how past and present societies have attempted to measure the intellect of the individual.
Early scientists believed that the size of the brain was the key to inte ... (continue)
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- English Books
- Paperback 444 Pages
- Edition: Rev Exp
- ISBN-10: 0393314251
- ISBN-13: 9780393314250
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Pub date: Jun 01, 1996
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and School & Library Binding
- In other languages: other languages
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When Gould meets Galton
Modern evolutionary biology seems prone to idle argument and useless controversy, as if it had an urge to experience once again the exciting atmosphere of the Darwinists v. the Creationists, or the Mendelians v. the Biometricians; or perhaps a longin ... (read full critics)