Genes, brains, and human potential : the science and ideology of intelligence / Ken Richardson.
Richardson, Ken, author.
2017
BF431 .R53 2017eb
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Title Genes, brains, and human potential : the science and ideology of intelligence / Ken Richardson.
Author Richardson, Ken, author.
ISBN 9780231543767 (electronic book)
023154376X (electronic book)
0231178425
9780231178426
DOI https://doi.org/10.7312/rich17842
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2017.
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.7312/rich17842 doi
Call Number BF431 .R53 2017eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 155.7
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."-- Dust jacket.
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Pinning down potential
Pretend genes
Pretend intelligence
Real genes, real intelligence
Intelligent development
How the brain makes potential
A creative cognition
Potential between brains
Human intelligence
Promoting potential
The problems of education are not genetic
Summary and conclusions
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Index.

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