The Mankind Quarterly Under Attack
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Andrew Lundberg
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Published: 1963
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg
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Published: 1964
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Council for Social and Economic Studies (U.S.)
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 450
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2006-06-17
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0393340406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them 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 Stephen Jay Gould. In this edition Dr. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the book's claim to be, as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudo-biological 'explanations' of our present social woes."
Author: Juan Comas
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: G. Schaffer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-09-02
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0230582443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 1930-62 the idea of race was studied across a range of academic disciplines. This book explores expert thinkings on race in the period and explains the relationship between scientific racial research, social policy and attitudes regarding immigration, ultimately offering new insight into the evolving understanding of the idea of race.
Author: Raymond Tallis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1317234634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNeuroscience has made astounding progress in the understanding of the brain. What should we make of its claims to go beyond the brain and explain consciousness, behaviour and culture? Where should we draw the line? In this brilliant critique Raymond Tallis dismantles "Neuromania", arising out of the idea that we are reducible to our brains and "Darwinitis" according to which, since the brain is an evolved organ, we are entirely explicable within an evolutionary framework. With precision and acuity he argues that the belief that human beings can be understood in biological terms is a serious obstacle to clear thinking about what we are and what we might become. Neuromania and Darwinitis deny human uniqueness, minimise the differences between us and our nearest animal kin and offer a grotesquely simplified account of humanity. We are, argues Tallis, infinitely more interesting and complex than we appear in the mirror of biology. Combative, fearless and thought-provoking, Aping Mankind is an important book and one that scientists, cultural commentators and policy-makers cannot ignore. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by the Author.