Gould was an expert on paleontology (a science dealing with the life of past geological periods as known from fossil remains), but was not an expert on race or IQ. Their impacts on the academic debate among IQ researchers were much smaller. Both books denied genetically caused racial IQ differences, both became international bestsellers among the general public, and both were translated into numerous languages. Īnother response to The Bell Cuve was the also Jewish Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel (1997). However, it has been argued that the popular-press and the literary-journal book reviews of The Mismeasure of Man were generally positive but that most scientific-journal book reviews were generally negative. In December 2006, Discover magazine ranked The Mismeasure of Man as the 17th-greatest science book of all time. The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man won the non-fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle the Outstanding Book Award for 1983 from the American Educational Research Association the Italian translation was awarded the Iglesias prize in 1991 and in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it as the 24th-best non-fiction book of all time. The book was widely praised among the politically correct. 2.6.2 Responses to the second edition (1996).2.6.1 Responses by subjects of the book.
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