- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, the brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionists. He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies. Building on work being done in molecular biology, epigenetics, dynamical systems, evolution theory, and complexity theory, Richardson maps a fresh understanding of intelligence and the development of human potential informed by a more complete and nuanced understanding of both ideology and science."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Genes, brains, and human potential (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Genes, brains, and human potential (Online)
- Genes, brains, & human potential : the science & ideology of intelligence
- Science and ideology of intelligence
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Pinning down potential -- Pretend genes -- Pretend intelligence -- Real genes, real intelligence -- Intelligent development -- How the brain makes potential -- A creative cognition -- Potential between brains: social intelligence -- Human intelligence -- Promoting potential -- Problems of education are not genetic -- Summary and conclusions.
- LCCN
- 2017449314
- OCLC
- ssj0001874609
- Author
Richardson, Ken.
- Title
Genes, brains, and human potential [electronic resource] : the science and ideology of intelligence / Ken Richardson.
- Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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