Re: Flynn Effect explained?

From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Sun Apr 22 2001 - 21:58:29 MDT


> Bradley Felton wrote: ...Gould's "The Mismeasure
> of Man" (one of the holy books of the PC crowd) went to great lengths to
> convince the un-critical reader that there was no correlation between brain
> size and either IQ or race...

Altho I am a Gould fan, Mismeasure failed to convince me. I could
see he was using his considerable intellectual skills to push a particular
absurd political view.

That notion about evolutionary pressure towards humans having
larger heads at birth has the ring of truth to it. spike



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