Human variation : the biopsychology of age, race, and sex / edited by R. Travis Osborne, Clyde E. Noble, Nathaniel Weyl ; contributors, Cyril D. Darlington [and others].

Date:
1978
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Publication/Creation

New York ; London : Academic Press, 1978.

Physical description

xvii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Prologue / Nathaniel Weyl -- Fallacies in arguments on human differences / Dwight J. Ingle -- Genes and melting pots / David C. Rife -- Genetic and behavioral effects of nonrandom mating / Arthur R. Jensen -- The nature and development of intellectual abilities / John L. Horn -- Race and sex differences in heritability of mental test performance : a study of negroid and caucasoid twins / R. Travis Osborne -- Sex linkage : a biological basis for greater male variability in intelligence / Robert G. Lehrke -- Own-race preference and self-esteem in young negroid and caucasoid children / Audrey M. Shuey -- Ethnic and racial differences in intelligence : international comparisons / Richard Lynn -- Age, race, and sex in the learning and performance of psychomotor skills / Clyde E. Noble -- Epilogue : The evolution and variation of human intelligence / Cyril D. Darlington.

Notes

Copy 1, bears the library stamp of the Eugenics Society.

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  • 0125290500
  • 9780125290500