The Mismeasure of Man
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-393-31425-0
- EAN: 9780393314250
- Produktnummer: 20615140
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Masse: H21.1 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.0 cm 361 g
- Auflage: 2 Rev ed.
- Abbildungen: Ill.
- Gewicht: 361
Über den Autor
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He published over twenty books, received the National Book and National Book Critics Circle Awards, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
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