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Authors: Ashley Montagu, Ashley Montagu
ISBN-13: 9780195102215, ISBN-10: 0195102215
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Ashley Montagu

The late Ashley Montagu was a distinguished anthropologist and author of over 40 books, including The Nature of Human Aggression, Statement on Race, and Science and Creationism.

Book Synopsis

Highlighted in Publisher's Weekly as a must-read for anyone interested in the debate about genetics, Race and IQ is the definitive response to The Bell Curve, as well as a brilliantly lucid exploration of the concepts and misconceptions about race and intelligence.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Ashley Montagu
2. Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Mankind, Th. Dobzansky and Ashley Montagu
3. The IQ Mythology, Ashley Montagu
4. The Debate Over Race: Thirty Years and Two Centuries Later, Leonard Lieberman, with Alice Littlefield and Larry T. Reynolds
5. What Can Biologists Solve?, S.E. Luria
6. The Magical Aura of the IQ, Jerome Kagan
7. An Examination of Jensen's Theory Concerning Educability, Heritability, and Population Differences, S. Biesheuvel
8. An Affluent Society's Excuses for Inequality: Developmental, Economic, and Educational, Edmund W. Gordon with Derek Green
9. Nature with Nurture; A Reinterpretation of the Evidence, Urie Brofenbrenner
10. Racist Arguments and IQ, Stephen Jay Gould
11. Intelligence, IQ, and Race, Ashley Montagu
12. On Creeping Jensenism, C. Loring Brace and Frank B. Livingstone
13. Race and Intelligence, Richard C. Lewontin
14. Heritability Analyses of IQ Scores: Science or Numerology?, David Layzer
15. On The Causes of IQ Differences Between Groups and Implications for Social Policy, Peggy R. Sanday
16. Race and IQ: The Genetic Background, W.F. Bodmer
17. Is Early Intervention Effective? Some Studies of Early Education in Familial and Extra-Familial Settings, Urie Brofenbrenner
18. Bad Science, Worse Politics, Alan Ryan
19. Behind the Curve, Leon J. Kamin
20. The Tainted Sources of The Bell Curve, Charles Lane
21. "Science" in the Sevice of Racism, C. Loring Brace
22. How Heritability Misleads About Race, Ned Block

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