Consistency of race differences in intelligence over millennia: A comment on Wicherts, Borsboom and Dolan

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 100-101

  Lynn, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain size; Civilization; Intelligence; Race differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651286350     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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