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

A scientific response to the best-selling The Bell Curve which set off a hailstorm of controversy upon its publication in 1994. Much of the public reaction to t

With new student assessments and teacher evaluation schemes in the planning or early implementation phases, this book takes a step back to examine the ideologic