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Author American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Title Science and the concept of race / editors: Margaret Mead ... [and others]
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 1968
Columbia U.P., 1968

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Description x, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Behavior-genetic analyses and their relevance to the construct of race The construct race and the innate differential / Peter Kilham and Peter H. Klopfer -- The distribution of genetic differences in behavioral potential in the human species / Benson E. Ginsburg and William S. Laughlin -- Behavior-genetic analysis and the study of man / Jerry Hirsch -- Boldness and judgment in behavior genetics / Herbert G. Birch -- 2. Biological aspects of race in man Race: the reflection of a biological historian / Loren Eiseley -- The genetic basis of human races / Bentley Glass -- The biological race concept as a research tool / Paul T. Baker -- 3. Social and psychological aspects of race The need to investigate average biological differences among racial groups / Dwight J. Ingle -- The need to end the pseudoscientific investigation of race / Morton H. Fried -- Some motivational determinants of racial differences in intellectual achievement / Irwin Katz -- Racial classifications: popular and scientific / Gloria A. Marshall
Summary Collection of papers. Non-Aboriginal
Notes "An outgrowth of a symposium held at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington on December 30, 1966."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Purchased from the Estate of Emeritus Professor W.D. (Bill) Williams
Subject Race.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Genetics, Medical.
Author Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978, editor
American Association for the Advancement of Science.
LC no. 68019754
ISBN 0231031017
9780231031011