Der Falsch Vermessene Mensch

When published in 1981 The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork the ringing answer to those who would classify people rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts & limits. Yet the idea of biology as destiny dies hard as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated & thoroughly undermined. In this edition Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book & tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right thru The Bell Curve. Further hes added five essays on questions of The Bell Curve in particular & on race racism & biological determinism in general. These additions strengthen the books claim to be as Leo J. Kamin of Princeton Univ. has said \a major contribution toward deflating pseudobiological explanations of our present social woes.\