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The science of human diversity : a history of the Pioneer Fund / Richard Lynn ; with a special preface by Harry F. Weyher.

Title
The science of human diversity : a history of the Pioneer Fund / Richard Lynn ; with a special preface by Harry F. Weyher.
Author
Lynn, Richard
Publication
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2001.

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Description
lxii, 581 p. : ports.; 23 cm.
Summary
Lynn recounts his days as president of the Pioneer Fund, a controversial research institute. The fund claims that media distortion has affected its studies of social status and intelligence in terms of racial and psychological genetic heritage.
Subject
  • Pioneer Fund (Foundation) > History
  • Eugenics > History. > United States
  • Intelligence levels
  • Race
  • Heredity, Human
  • Eugenics > History [MESH]
  • Ethnic Groups [MESH]
  • Racial Groups
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface: My Years With the Pioneer Fund / Harry F. Weyher -- The Background and Early Years of the Pioneer Fund -- Wickliffe Preston Draper and the Founding of the Pioneer Fund -- Harry H. Laughlin -- Frederick H. Osborn -- John M. Harlan -- The Other Directors of the Pioneer Fund -- Henry E. Garrett -- John C. Flanagan -- The First Research Programs -- Audrey M. Shuey -- Frank C.J. McGurk -- A. James Gregor -- Robert E. Kuttner -- Donald A. Swan -- R. Travis Osborne -- Ernest van den Haag -- William B. Shockley -- The Nature of Intelligence -- Philip E. Vernon -- Arthur R. Jensen -- Hans J. Eysenck -- P.A. Vernon -- T. Edward Reed -- Lloyd G. Humphreys -- Douglas N. Jackson -- Behavioral and Medical Genetics -- Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr. -- David T. Lykken -- Joseph M. Horn -- Hoben Thomas -- Brunetto Chiarelli -- Medical Genetics -- Race Differences -- J. Philippe Rushton -- Robert A. Gordon -- Michael E. Levin -- IQ, Population, and Social Policy -- Seymour W. Itzkoff -- Daniel R. Vining -- Robert D. Retherford -- Roger Pearson -- Hiram P. Caton -- Richard Lynn -- Linda S. Gottfredson -- Ralph Scott -- Garrett Hardin -- Afterword: The Achievements of the Pioneer Fund -- Certificate of Incorporation of the Pioneer Fund, Inc.
ISBN
  • 076182040X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0761820418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001027579
OCLC
  • 46713162
  • SCSB-11861080
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library