Of a nonverbal test of innate intelligence that was given to all Army recruits during World War I, he made his class at Harvard take the test, and found many students stumped by its challenge to supply the missing part of a Victrola Profound yet entertaining essays on natural history, ''Ever Since Darwin'' and ''The Panda's Thumb,'' is not the sort of thinker one makes solemn declarations about. Professor Gould, who teaches geology, biology and the history of science at Harvard, and whose earlier books include two collections of The interest of Stephen Jay Gould's latest book really lies in watching the author's intelligence at play. Of recent books have done that, and they have tended to be tedious, either because they make the battle seem one-sided or because the battle really is one-sided. Retrospectively, the IQ of history's prime movers - its statesmen, soldiers, and intellectuals'' -which project concluded about Mozart that ''A child who learns to play the piano at 3, who receives and benefitsīy musical instruction at that age, and who studies and executes the most difficult counterpoint at age 14, is probably above the average level of his social group.'' Intelligence at Playīut the real interest of ''The Mismeasure of Man'' doesn't really lie in the battle it wages against the intelligence measurers and the unfortunate ends to which they have applied their results. Included the notion that tattoos were a sign of innate criminality and that designs of clasped hands were found very frequently in pederasts or on a project undertaken by the American psychologist Lewis M.
Hierarchical intelligence in human beings.įor without question Professor Gould's ''The Mismeasure of Man'' does deal that blow, if only by confronting Jensen's ideas at the end of a series of chapters on such subjectsĪs pre-Darwinian craniometry - or the practice of filling human skulls with BB's - as a measure of the inferiority of blacks and Indians and women on the famous Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, whose enlightened beliefs ONE fitting way to begin this review would be to offer a solemn account of the sharp blow that the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould has delivered to Arthur Jensen and the apostles of innate, hereditary, October 21, 1981, Wednesday, Late City Final Edition
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