INTRODUCTION TO THE REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION and
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

• three-part framework of the book
  

• goal(s) of writing the book and revising the book

• issue of scientific objectivity

• concept of biological determinism
  

• two fallacies of biological determinism

• two weaknesses of biological determinism as it relates to intelligence

• two methods traditionally used to measure intelligence

• his approach to examining biological determinism and intelligence research

CHAPTER 2 AMERICAN POLYGENY AND CRANIOMETRY BEFORE DARWIN

• racism vs. objectivity

• polygenism vs. monogenism

• Agassiz: views on polygenism

• Morton: craniometric methods, results, four errors

• social implications / relationship to slavery

CHAPTER 3 MEASURING HEADS

• allure of numbers:
  

• craniology and quantification

• Galton’s quantification and views on biological determinism of traits

• Bean’s studies of the corpus callosum

• <>Mall’s reanalysis

• Gould's four objections/contentions
  

• Broca: strengths and weaknesses of research, craniological approaches, four rankings (French vs. German, criminals, diachronic changes, male vs. female)
  

CHAPTER 4 MEASURING BODIES

This chapter considers two arguments about evolution.

• recapitulation

• Haeckel and the definition of recapitulation

• relationship to ranking human races

• Cope's methods and rankings
  

• the replacement of recapitulation with neoteny and Bolk's rankings
  

• Lombroso’s criminal anthropology

• concept of atavism

• concept of stigmata

• influence of criminal anthropology

• resurgence of criminal anthropology in 1960s as innate criminology

CHAPTER 5 THE HEREDITARIAN THEORY OF IQ

This is a very long chapter. Regarding the four major people discussed in this chapter, you need to have something about each of these individuals, but you won't be able to cover all of the information in one page. So, touch on a few of the topics listed for each below.

• Binet and the IQ scale: reason for developing IQ test, concerns about how test might be misused, three cardinal principles

• fallacies of reification and hereditarianism (inevitability) in relation to IQ testing

• Goddard’s hereditarian view of intelligence: unilineal scale of intelligence and other allegedly related behaviors, concerns with morons, inheritance of intelligence, social implications and eugenics, changes in opinion

• Terman’s hereditarian view of intelligence: changes to Binet’s test, social implications and eugenics, Cox’s work [not that critical], relative contribution of nature vs. nurture in polymorphic variation in intelligence, changes in opinion

• Yerkes’ hereditarian view of intelligence: military intelligence testing, social implications, problems with the tests in terms of construction and administration

CHAPTER 6 THE REAL ERROR OF CYRIL BURT

Spend more time discussing Burt and Spearman than Thurstone and Jensen.

• Burt: correlation and causation, factor analysis (don’t agonize over the details), reification of g (general intelligence) and factors of g, hereditarian view of intelligence, political uses of ideas, instances of fraud
  

• Spearman: statistics, reification, g (general intelligence) and s (specific loci) factors of intelligence, hereditarian view of intelligence, how his research was used/misused
  

• Thurstone: vectors of the mind, Spearman’s and Burt’s reactions to Thurstone, PMA's
  

• Jensen: use of g to rank all life forms, reification of g, hereditarian view of intelligence

CHAPTER 7 A POSITIVE CONCLUSION and EPILOGUE

• debunking: definition, benefits

• sociobiology: definition, why it is problematic, examples

• neoteny: definition, relationship to evolution

• Carrie Buck case study

THE BELL CURVE

• Herrnstein and Murray: two arguments (social Darwinism and hereditarian view of intelligence), focus on populations rather than individuals, major problems with argument

• ghosts of bell curves past: Gobineau, four premises, misuse of Binet

THREE CENTURIES’ PERSPECTIVES ON RACE AND RACISM

• Browne and debunking: category mistakes, surrogacy

• African-Americans with lower innate intelligence: definitional problems

• racial geometry and racial classification: Blumenbach, Linnaeus

• Darwin: views on human nature