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The Mismeasure of Man

Current price: $20.89
The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man

Barnes and Noble

The Mismeasure of Man

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And yet the idea of innate limits—of biology as destiny—dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to , 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 . Further, he has added five essays on questions of 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."

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