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Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man

Discussion Led by Susan Sperling

pp. 19-61

Introduction to the Revised and Expanded Edition: Thoughts at Age Fifteen

Chapter One: Introduction

pp. 62-104

Chapter Two: American Polygeny and Craniometry before Darwin

pp.142-175

Chapter Four : Measuring Bodies: Two Case Studies on the Apishness of Undesirables

pp. 176-222

Chapter 5: The Hereditarian Theory of IQ: An American Invention

pp. 222-263; pp. 365-366

Chapter 5 (continued)

Epilogue

Selected Online Resources:

Chavez, Michael (2004) The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive. http://www.stephenjaygould.org/

This is an "unofficial" Gould website with many valuable links to biographical material and articles.

Hammonds, et. al. (ed) (2004) Bibliographies: Intelligence. History of Race in Science. Racsci.org.  http://www.racesci.org/bibliographies/current_scholarship/intelligence.html

Hammonds, et. al. (ed) (2004) Bibliographies: Genetics. History of Race in Science. Racsci.org. http://www.racesci.org/bibliographies/current_scholarship/genetics.html

Harvard University Gazette Archives. (2002) Paleontologist, author Gould dies at 60, May 20, 2002. Harvard College. http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/05.16/99-gould.html

Lowood, Henry (1998) Stephen Jay Gould Biography. Stanford Presidential Lectures in the Humanities and Arts. Stanford University. http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/gould/

California Newsreel (2003) Race: The Power of an Illusion. Public Broadcasting System. http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm

This site has many interesting exercises and illustrations. We'll use the Sorting People Exercise. Also present on this site: An INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD LEWONTIN

"Richard Lewontin, Alexander Agassiz Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most eminent authorities on human diversity. He has written many celebrated books on evolution and human variation books including Human Diversity, Not in Our Genes and most recently, The Triple Helix. "