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Yet the idea of 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. In this edition, Stephen Jay 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."
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September 20, 2011 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781452624105
- File size: 473888 KB
- Duration: 16:27:15
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- Lexile® Measure: 1360
- Text Difficulty: 11-12
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Reviews
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Arthur Morey narrates this pivotal work on the fallacy of biological determinism in a clear and expressive voice. Gould's book may well become the definitive text on how intelligence testing is a flawed science that can be too easily misused to promote racism, classism, and sexism. The audio version is the 1996 revised edition of the 1981 original and includes some added introductory material illustrating how biological determinism has resurfaced in the popular media. This is a no-frills production with no music or other effects, but a link to a PDF document provides visual support to help listeners understand the math in the latter part of the book. S.K.G. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
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