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The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

The late Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and author of The Mismeasure of Man (1996), asserts that such resurgences are not mysterious nor predictably cyclical. Book Review: The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould. Anthropometry, Craniometry and the Mismeasure of Man. I would say The Mismeasurement of Man is one of the most commonly cited books on this weblog over the years (in the comments). Races_and_skulls Josiah Clark Nott and George Robins Gliddon, Illustration from Indigenous Races of the Earth, 1857. The Mismeasure of Man by Gould. Figure 2: The Mismeasure of Man, flanked by its writer, Stephen Jay Gould. 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. The Mismeasure of Science: Stephen Jay Gould versus Samuel George Norton on Skulls and Bias. Für den ersten Punkt verweise ich nochmals auf das sehr lesenswerte Buch «The Mismeasure of Man», welches diese Frage in einer dem Thema angebrachten Ausführlichkeit bespricht. The book I usually recommend to people who think that IQ differences between "racial" groups (whatever that means) are meaningful is "The Mismeasure of Man" by Gould.