James Watson's most inconvenient truth: Race realism and the moralistic fallacy

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 629-640

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a   Jensen, Arthur R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ASIAN; BRAIN SIZE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHICS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MENTAL CAPACITY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORALS; SCIENCE; TRUST;

EID: 52949127305     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.05.031     Document Type: Editorial

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