{"id":30398,"date":"2013-04-15T01:41:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=30398"},"modified":"2013-04-15T01:41:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T01:41:43","slug":"the-mismeasure-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=30398","title":{"rendered":"The Mismeasure of Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mismeasure of Man<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton & Company<\/a>
\nJune 1996 (Originally published in 1981)
\n448 pages
\n5.5 \u00d7 8.3 in
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31425-0<\/p>\n

Stephen Jay Gould<\/a> (1941-2002)<\/strong>, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology
\nHarvard University<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve<\/em>, 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<\/em>. Further, he has added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve<\/em> 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.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mismeasure of Man W. W. Norton & Company June 1996 (Originally published in 1981) 448 pages 5.5 \u00d7 8.3 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31425-0 Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002), Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Harvard University The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2039,8,17,394],"tags":[14407,1300],"class_list":["post-30398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","tag-stephen-jay-gould","tag-w-w-norton-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}