The Mismeasure of Man
The Mismeasure of Man is a critical analysis of the early works of scientific racism which promoted "the theory of unitary, innate, linearly rankable intelligence"—such as craniometry, the measurement of skull volume and its relation to intellectual faculties.
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 0-393-01489-4
1981, 1996
Introduction
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. The book is both a hist...
Author
Stephen Jay Gould (/ɡuːld/; 1941 – 2002) was a professor at Harvard, teaching paleontology, evolu...
Craniometry
The Mismeasure of Man is a critical analysis of the early works of scientific racism which promot...
Bias and falsification
The Mismeasure of Man presents a historical evaluation of the concepts of the intelligence quotie...
IQ, g, statistical correlation, and heritability
As an evolutionary biologist and historian of science, Gould accepted biological variability (the...