What is it about?
I reviewed (mostly favorably) Charles Murray's book "Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class." The book discusses how biological differences can lead to economic inequality at the individual and group level.
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Why is it important?
This is the first scholarly review of Murray's book. The book is an excellent introduction to the biology of individual and group inequality for people who have no retraining in advanced biology or genetics. Despite my disagreements with Murray's views of the future of the social sciences, I think this is an important book to read because it will help readers identify problems in theories that ignore the influence of biology.
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Not a lot of people have enough knowledge about the different branches of biology and the social sciences to competently review this book. I feel lucky that The American Journal of Psychology entrusted me enough to write this review and that they published it with few alterations.
Dr Russell T. Warne
Independent Scholar
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This page is a summary of: Crossing the Rubicon from the Social to the Biological Sciences, The American Journal of Psychology, January 2020, University of Illinois Press,
DOI: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.133.4.0536.
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