August 17, 2007

Animal Intelligence

By DAVID P. BARASH

When it comes to intelligence, some presumably intelligent people hold some very stupid ideas. On one side are those like Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein, who in their influential book The Bell Curve mangled basic genetic concepts such as heritability, as well as common sense, in their eagerness to conclude that human races differ in IQ. On the other side (politically as well as conceptually), Stephen Jay Gould argued passionately — as well as, on occasion,

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