Why Humans Vary in Intelligence (Evolution of Human Intelligence, 3) - Hardcover

Itzkoff, Seymour W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0913993093 ISBN 13: 9780913993095

Publisher: Paideia Pub, 1987

Synopsis

The third volume in a projected four-part series on the evolution of human intelligence, a series acknowledged by opponents and supporters alike as one of the most important recent investigations into the sources and nature of human intelligence.
Professor Itzkoff first sets forth the evolutionary facts as a beacon to illuminate his biological theory of variable intelligence. Filling out the evidence from the psychological and brain sciences presented in THE FORM OF MAN and TRIUMPH OF THE INTELLIGENT, he here develops a full-scale model of the mind that more fully explains the relationship between I.Q. and the broader expressions of human intelligence as experienced in daily life.
(His model of variable intelligence further delves into the historical consequences of our ancient biological and psychoneurological heritage. Issues such as gender, race, and ethnic variability are treated factually and responsibly, taking into account the full range of empirical evidence available to scholars.)
The result is a theory having three complementary bodies of evidence - evolutionary, psychoneurological, and historical - building into a perspective on the factual -why- of human intellectual differences. These differences can best be observed in the richness and diversity of individual personality as well as in the cultures of our world. Itzkoff here takes the first tentative steps toward a biological explanation of the nature and structure of culture.
WHY HUMANS VARY IN INTELLIGENCE is an appeal for the rational study of human nature, a plea to allow for further nonideological research into this most crucial area of contemporary concern."

About this title

Review

-The author, Seymour W. Itzkoff of Smith College, argues that the perennial question of nature vs. nature 'has been resolved ... on the side of nature, ' and he supplies much evidence in support of that view. ... the result is a fascinating book that challenges accepted ideas.- (Lee Dembart, Los Angeles Times)
-I recommend Seymour Itzkoff's volumes as cornerstones for the library of anyone interested in a perfect or imperfect evolution.- (Russell Gardner, The ASCAP Newsletter)
"

About the Author

SEYMOUR W. ITZKOFF was trained in music, philosophy of science, and educational theory. He has been a professor at Smith College since 1965. Author of twelve books, he recently completed a four-part series on the "evolution of human intelligence," which has elicited much praise as well as controversy. In 1991 Itzkoff authored Human Intelligence and National Power (Peter Lang). He is also the author of Ernst Cassirer: Scientific Knowledge and the Concept of Man (1971), Emanuel Feuermann, Virtuoso (1979), and How We Learn to Read (1986).

Edition details

• Publisher: Paideia Pub
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913993093
• ISBN 13: 9780913993095
• Binding: Hardcover