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For countless generations people have been told that their potential as humans is limited and fundamentally unequal. The social order, they have been assured, is arranged by powers beyond their control. More recently the appeal has been to biology, specifically the genes, brain sciences, the concept of intelligence, and powerful new technologies. Reinforced through the authority of science and a growing belief in bio-determinism, the ordering of the many for the benefit of a few has become more entrenched. In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, 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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Cognition & cognitive psychology

• Full title: Genes, Brains, and Human Potential
• Author: Ken Richardson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 408
• EAN: 9780231178426
• ISBN: 0231178425
• ID: 15351845
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Weight: 688 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 162 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. March 2017

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