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Race and Intelligence

Richard C Lewontin
- 01 Mar 1970 - 
- Vol. 26, Iss: 3, pp 2-8
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This article is published in Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 185 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Intelligence quotient & Race and intelligence.

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Evolution and facial action in reflex, social motive, and paralanguage

TL;DR: A behavioral-ecology view of human facial displays is introduced that contrasts with previous views of faces as innate, prototypic, "iconic" expressions of fundamental emotions, to clarify how facial displays relate to reflexion, motive and intention, emotion and psychophysiology, and language and paralanguage.
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Human genetic diversity: Lewontin's fallacy.

TL;DR: It has been proposed that the division of Homo sapiens into these groups is not justified by the genetic data, because most of the information that distinguishes populations is hidden in the correlation structure of the data and not simply in the variation of the individual factors.
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How much could we boost scholastic achievement and IQ scores? A direct answer from a French adoption study.

TL;DR: The observations provide a direct quantitative answer to the question posed by Jensen in 1969: what is the social class of a child placed into a family spanning the top 13% of the socio-professional scale?
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How heritability misleads about race

TL;DR: The Bell Curve revives and elaborates an argument given by Jensen to the effect that facts about heritability of IQ in whites dictate that blacks are genetically inferior in IQ, but clarification of the concept of heritability shows that this reasoning is fallacious.