[Stultis]

A revised edition apparently included an attack on The Bell Curve. In general The Mismeasure of Man attacked the notion of objectively measuring IQ. I only read the portion that I happened to be interested in, principally the parts about 19th Century scientific racism, e.g. the cranial measurements of the American polygenist Samuel Morton.

[mjolnir]

Thanks... I was like, what? How could this be? I've read both of those!

What do you think of John Derbyshire's habit of calling people like Gould who he deems to be denying facts of biology for leftist political reasons "left creationists"? Have you read his comments on that sort of thing in the Corner?

[Coyoteman]

A revised edition apparently included an attack on The Bell Curve. In general The Mismeasure of Man attacked the notion of objectively measuring IQ. I only read the portion that I happened to be interested in, principally the parts about 19th Century scientific racism, e.g. the cranial measurements of the American polygenist Samuel Morton.

OK, revised edition. I just went to my shelf and pulled the volume, and never considered a revised edition (duh!).

Cranial measurements are fun--I did a lot of them in grad school and for my dissertation, but mtDNA is the way to go!