His method involves the analysis of the frequencies of ethnic names among. The concept of intelligence and the degree to which it is measurable is and has been a matter of discussion. Chapter 6 discusses the gene based lifehistory theory i have proposed to explain the racial pattern in brain size, intelligence, and other traits. It features an overview of various studies conducted on intelligence differences between the various races through an evolutionary lense.
Inquirydriven presentation presents basic principles of evolutionary biology through the analysis of new and classical research studies. R, c intelligence race differences in intelligence. This trains students to think like scientists by evaluating hypotheses, considering experimental design, analyzing data, and highlighting new questions for future research. In the united states, what little discussion there is about racial differences revolves around intelligence. Race differences in intelligence is his essential work on this most controversial and consequential topic.
An evolutionary analysis provides an inter esting look at early to modernday studies of intelligence and their subsequent. Full text full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Nov 18, 2009 it also asks whether individual differences can tell us anything about race differences. An evolutionary analysis kindle edition by lynn, richard. Hans eysenck was one of the earliest protagonists in the controversy over race and intelligence. But if you approach the data from other directions, you get the same results. An evolutionary analysis, richard lynn 2006 assembles a massive contribution to the iqhereditarian thesis. Most of those who have taken a strong position in the scienti c debate about race and iq have done so as either hereditarians or cultureonly theorists. Separate chapters are devoted to controversial topics.
Nov 22, 2006 three phases of evolutionary intelligence according to their model simulation, which ran through about 30,000 generations of humans, gavrilets and vose identified three phases of the dynamics of. Richard lynn university of ulster, coleraine, northern ireland the mankind quarterly, v31. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. He is a former professor emeritus of psychology at ulster university, having had the title withdrawn by the university in 2018, and assistant editor of the journal mankind quarterly, which has been described as a white supremacist journal. In 1969, the consensus that there are no race differences in intelligence was challenged by art jensen in his paper how much. An evolutionary analysis second revised edition by richard lynn. He believed that the observed variability in iq scores is genetically determined to a high degree 80% heritability and that, in consequence, the blackwhite iq gap in the us is due predominantly to genetic factors. Claims of differences in intelligence between races have been used to justify colonialism, slavery, racism, social darwinism, and racial eugenics. Causal hypotheses1998, rushton in races differences in g and the jensen effect 2003, and jensen and rushton in race and iq. Richard lynn, race differences in intelligence sage journals.
Three phases of evolutionary intelligence according to their model simulation, which ran through about 30,000 generations of humans, gavrilets and vose identified three phases of the dynamics of. May 23, 20 race, intelligence, and genetics for curious dummies. An evolutionary analysis, washington summit books, augusta, ga, 2005, 318 pp. Race differences in the prevalence of psychopathy is thus extremely consequential for the future of multiracial societies. Here they could pick up shellfish and crack them open by hitting them.
It is widely accepted that race differences in intelligence exist, but no consensus has emerged on whether these have any geneticbasis. Richard lynn author of race differences in intelligence. In this book, eminent personality researcher richard lynn marshals an enormous body of evidence to demonstrate clear and consistent race differences in psychopathic personality, as well as to explore why these differences. One analysis calculates that brain size could easily account for five points of the blackwhite iq gap. Once there are genetic differences between races, there will be intellectual differences, it is impossible that it is otherwise. The support for the genetic hypothesis was outlined by jensen in population differences in intelligence. The nature and origins of hominid intelligence is a muchstudied and muchdebated topic, of natural interest to humans as the most successful and intelligent hominid species. Lynns meta analysis lists the average iq scores of east asians 105, europeans 99, inuit 91, southeast asians and amerindians each 87, pacific islanders 85, middle easterners including south asians and north africans 84, east and west africans 67, australian aborigines 62 and bushmen and pygmies 54. Yes, human traits are as much about your ability to compete with others as to dominate them as it is about getting by in terms of survival and living. Lynns theory of the evolution of intelligence does not fit the facts.
Jan 16, 2019 the nature and origins of hominid intelligence is a muchstudied and muchdebated topic, of natural interest to humans as the most successful and intelligent hominid species. Cultureonly theorists are skeptical that genetic factors play any independently effective role in explaining group differences. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or. Linda gottfredson about the differences in human intelligence, the gap in established knowledge between academia and the general public, the difference between. All of the features, characteristics and qualities that we exhibit are genetically determined and. All those named above have argued that there is some genetic basis for race differences. Race, intelligence, and genetics for curious dummies.
Reviewed by leslie jones the idea that it was climate that determined the capacity or incapacity of the different races to initiate high civilization has deep roots in western thought. The reality of course is that there are very significant differences both between individuals of the same raceethnicity and on average between different racial groups. The three chapters that complete the first part of the book are said to be intended to clarify some of the issues of definition and measurement surrounding three of the key concepts on. Race, intelligence, and genetics for curious dummies the. It seems to me that only evolutionary theories are able to fully explain the. Race differences are not limited to numerical differences on a single scale like iq which itself is an aggregate of several different abilities. Richard lynn born 20 february 1930 is a controversial english psychologist and author.
Race differences in psychopathic personality richard lynn. One of the most heated areas of debate is what role if any is played by genetic differences between ethnic groups. Chances are, when you hear the term intelligence in the same sentence as hereditary, it makes you at least a little bit uncomfortable. Unfortunately, there are several questions left unclear. Most of those who have taken a strong position in the scienti c debate about race and iq have done so. And for individuals, ancestry is more scientifically meaningful than race. There is, after all, a long, dark history of crank researchers making false claims about genetics to prop up bad ideas. The evolution of intelligence, and why our brains have shrunk. Political correctness and the study of racial differences springerlink. Pdf it is widely accepted that race differences in intelligence exist, but no consensus has emerged on whether these have any genetic basis. In the early 1990s, psychologist richard lynn published papers. Race, evolution and intelligence linda gottfredson and. The first chapter provides something of the background and recent history of the concern with racialethnic differences in intellectual performance in the u. Among other things, this hypothesis suggests one possible explanation for why general intelligence is correlated with the big five personality factor openness to experience.
Richard lynn on race differences in intelligence american. The evolution of racial differences in intelligence. Evolutionary biologists call it the rk scale of reproductive strategies. Despite the evolutionary analysis promised in the subtitle, the focus is on documenting differences not explaining them the book purports to be. In the genetic sense, a race is a population that differs in the incidence of certain genes from other populations, as a result of isolation, most often geographical. It also asks whether individual differences can tell us anything about race differences. Race differences in intelligence began to be analyzed scientifically in the middle years of the. An evolutionary analysis, 2nd revised edition, washington summit publishers, 2015, 425 pp. Study after study has consistently shown that the average black iq test score is 15 to 18 points lower than the white average. Evolution of race and sex differences in intelligence and. Richard lynns race differences in intelligence is structured around his massive database of iq studies. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading race differences in intelligence.
An evolutionary analysis richard lynn download bok. At the conclusion lynn delivers the haymaker that those people who acknowledge racial differences in blood types, susceptibility to diseases, and so on but then say that dispite this all races have evolved exactly equal intelligence. Philippe rushton department of psychology, university of western ontario, london, ontario, canada n6a 5c2 received 25 seprember 1987 summaryracial differences exist on numerous heritable behaviour traits such that caucasoids fall. Why race matters by michael levin is that much stronger case. There is continuing controversy about interethnic differences in iq and why these might exist. Differences in intelligence, or rather, in intelligence types, must be understood culturally as well as biologically. Reflections on sixtyeight years of research on race and intelligence. Special issue articles on evolution of race and sex differences in intelligence and personality. It has already been shown that most iq tests focus predominantly on the componential aspect of intelligence and neglect the other aspects of intelligence. However, a number of authorities have concluded that there is no compelling evidence for genetic factors. These are the evidence on race differences in intelligence, and the degree to which these differences are determined by genetic and environmental factors. An evolutionary analysis 2nd revised edition i think there is a significant problem of brain drain in eastern europe, which can probably explain the lower iq more functionally than soviet downward selective pressure. Is human intelligence still an evolutionary advantage.
But another part of me wonders whether research on race and intelligencegiven the persistence of racism in the u. Lynns metaanalysis lists the average iq scores of east asians 105, europeans 99, inuit 91, southeast asians and amerindians each 87, pacific islanders 85, middle easterners including south asians and north africans 84, east and west africans 67, australian aborigines 62 and bushmen and pygmies 54. Beyond this, the human drive is to advance, acquire, exploit, manipulate and never to be truly n. In 2006 i published race differences in intelligence. Oct 10, 2018 at the conclusion lynn delivers the haymaker that those people who acknowledge racial differences in blood types, susceptibility to diseases, and so on but then say that dispite this all races have evolved exactly equal intelligence. Race differences in intelligence book race differences in intelligence. Through more than 50 years of academic research, richard lynn has distinguished himself as one of the worlds preeminent authorities on intelligence, personality, and human biodiversity. Race differences also take in different types of mentality, which we can see more readily by commonsense observation than by scientific tests. Pdf the myth of race download full pdf book download. It is widely accepted that race differences in intelligence exist, but no consensus has emerged on whether these have any genetic basis.
Full text access call for 14th annual award applications to the h. Yes, there is a genetic component to intelligence science. Race differences in intelligence an evolutionary analysis richard lynn augusta ga. He collected a bundle of data on iq from different populations around the world. Jul 11, 2016 richard lynn, race differences in intelligence. Richard lynn is perhaps best known for his work on national differences in iq, conducted with tatu vanhanen. Get a printable copy pdf file of the complete article 711k, or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Racial differences in measured intelligence have been observed, but race is a socially constructed rather than biological variable, so such differences are difficult to interpret. Psychology, a psychology textbook by schacter et al.
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