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Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis Paperback – March 1, 2006

by Richard Lynn (Author)

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Richard Lynn, one of the leading researchers on intelligence and personality and the author of several major books on IQ and personality research, summarizes in this landmark work what one scholar has described as the definitive study of race differences in intelligence. Since 1977, Richard Lynn has blazed a pioneering trail of research on racial differences in IQ. In previous books and scientific articles, Lynn has explored dysgenic trends in intelligence, sex differences in IQ, psychopathic personality traits, and the dimensions of personality and national character. In this book, Lynn analyzes the results of over 500 published studies that span tem population groupsraces and sub-races worldwidein what is certain to be a path-breaking book for IQ experts and educated laypersons alike. This comprehensive review of worldwide racial differences of general intelligence explores the formation of races, meaning of intelligence, validity of race differences in IQ, environmental and genetic correlates of intelligence, the relationship between brain size and intelligence, the evolution of racial differences in intelligence, and the factor of racial hybrids. In a relentlessly methodical approach, Lynn expands upon an extensive array of research findings from the biomedical and social sciences, including the latest studies from the fields of behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, and anthropology in reaching his thought-provoking conclusions. Extensively referenced, this exhaustive study of race and IQ is a milestone accomplishment and should serve as the yardstick by which future research is measured. "The IQs of the racescan be explained as having arisen from the different environments in which they evolved, and in particular from the ice ages in the northern hemisphere exerting selection pressures for greater intelligence for survival during cold winters; and in addition from the appearance of mutations for higher intelligence appearing in the races with the larger populations and under the greatest cold stress. The IQ differences between the races explain the differences in achievement in making the Neolithic transition from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture, the building of early civilizations, and the development of mature civilizations during the last two thousand years. The position of environmentalists that over the course of some 100,000 years peoples separated by geographical barriers in different parts of the world evolved into ten different races with pronounced genetic differences in morphology, blood groups, and the incidence of genetic diseases, and yet have identical genotypes for intelligence, is so improbable that those who advance it must either be totally ignorant of the basic principles of evolutionary biology or else have a political agenda to deny the importance of race. Or both." From Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis

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Richard Lynn graduated in Psychology and took his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He has been lecturer in Psychology at the University of Exeter, professor of Psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and professor and head of the department of Psychology at the University of Ulster. His main work has been on intelligence and personality. His books include Personality and National Character (1972), Dimensions of Personality (1980), Educational Achievement in Japan (1988), Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations (1996), Eugenics: A Reassessment (2001) and (jointly with Tatu Vanhanen) IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002). Awards he has received include the Passingham Prize, Cambridge University Prize for the best Psychology student of the year, and the US Mensa Awards for Excellence 1985 and 1993 for work on intelligence.

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Paperback: 338 pages
Publisher: Washington Summit Publishers; 1st Edition edition (March 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 159368021X
ISBN-13: 978-1593680213
Package Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 34 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,339,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Real World Not Fantasy World

October 10, 2018

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In today's liberal arts and social sciences there is a bias to "what should be rather than what is." This in itself is noble. The fatal flaw in this paradigm, however, is that academics present and discuss and teach and research a fantasy world about as real as Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian or Inner World series. People who look at the real world are not welcome. This includes Richard Lynn who was recently stripped of his Professor Emeritus status by the University of Ulster.

So what did Lynn do? He published 328 pages with 74 pages of bibliography establishing the fact that in the real world there are ten racial groups and as a result of thousands of years of environmental influences they have developed different cultures and resulting differences in intelligence. He does this in a lucid, easy to read manner as he takes the dear reader around the world documenting his thesis and occassionally throwing out interesting tidbits, e.g. the Tasmanians are the only people who never discovered a means to make fire. 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 ". . .must either be totally ignorant of the basic principles of evolutionary biology or else have a political agenda to deny the importance of race."

Now for a couple of fun things. Perhaps the greatest editorial slip I've seen comes on page 316 where reference is made to Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germans, and Steel." Also Lynn writes of the evolution of animal intelligence and sees squirrels as one of the most intelligent mammals. That seals the deal. Lynn knows about the real world.

Lynn's book is very highly recommended.

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James M. Thomas

A very non-pc scholarly work... It opens ...

July 2, 2018

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A very non-pc scholarly work... It opens the door for more work to be done on a series of factors that influence a nation's wealth and creativity!
The notion that there may be thresholds of IQ for innovation and entrepreneurial abilities makes small national means in IQ very important because then all the action at the tails of the distribution become very non-linear!

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Fascinating book

March 18, 2011

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Richard Lynn has written several books and I just picked up this one because I was curious. The subject of the book is currently a taboo subject.

Lynn starts out by providing evidence that races exist. There is nothing racist anywhere in this book. The author only states that races exists and provide references and arguments. In much of social science race does not "exist", because researchers are not comfortable with the implications of the term. The harder sciences cannot afford such frivolous luxury. In medical science for instance race exists and is a rather non-controversial issue (Many studies catalog relationship between certain diseases and race as well as the response to certain pharmaceuticals and race.)

Lynn then moves on to discuss the relationship between race and IQ - the main topic of the book. The basic model suggest that IQ is higher when the climate is harsher and Lynn speculates why this might be the case. He also describes twin studies where only one twin had been adopted into a family of another race. These studies can show the different effect of race versus upbringing.

There is a lot of references and data tables in the book. The book isn't particularly well written, but it is a fascinating read. If these findings are correct, they have consequences for economic development policy.

And please do not attribute the term racism to this book. I don't know about the author, but in this book I could not find anything even slightly racist.

UPDATE: I want to comment on the reviewers who state that Lynn's research is of poor quality. The book is a summary of existing research so it is not a book about Lynn's research findings. It is a review of the whole field. Off course some of the referenced studies are not up to current standards. However, the book also reports the result of twin studies that certainly pass the most stringent methodological critiques. A common procedure in research is to collect all studies in an area and perform a so called meta-analysis. That is what Lynn has done. I would say that Lynn is not familiar with the latest methodology on meta-analysis, but that does not invalidate his conclusions. Since only retired scholars and outsiders will write on this controversial topic, their methodology will lag the cutting edge methodology some freshly minted PhDs master. However, these freshly-minted, methods-monsters normally overshoot when they dismiss the research they don't like.

As I noted, this is a taboo subject so it can be expected that some people would like to tarnish the author instead of arguing specifics. I urge you to buy the book and read it with a critical mind. I wish more people would touch this taboo subject. If Lynn is wrong, then it can be proven by meta analysis of existing studies.

If you like controversial books about IQ, please also check out:
- Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book) - a classic
- The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One

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Dumoulin Baptiste.

February 26, 2018

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The most interesting book I read in my life.

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July 6, 2018

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very accurate

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