The 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 a

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

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 effective

When published in 1981, was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed gen

More than any other modern scientists, Stephen Jay Gould has opened up to millions the wonders of evolutionary biology. His genius as an essayist lies in his un