Testing the genetic hypothesis of group mean IQ differences in South Africa: Racial admixture and cross-situational consistency

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 768-776

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Group differences; Intelligence; Raven's matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749085288     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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