You mean the CIA. The CIA can be found to have links to all these major books/writters, either through intermediaries like Epstein (Pinker), connections and fundings through foundations (Murray with neocon AEI), or ideological/political connections as in anti-Islamic sentiment (Dawkins and new"atheists" who became famous not for their arguments in their respective books, but because their anti-religious sentiment was directed at Islam and "coincided" with the wars in the middle east.).
The CIA has a liberal wing and a conservative wing.
As anyone can testify, even the so called "opposition" or alt-right is heavily pro technological progress, and they mostly express strong support for techno utopianism, same as leftists.
Is there continuing value in now outmoded scientific classics like Cavalli-Sforza's History and Geography of Human Genes, Coon's Living Races of Man, Darwin's Descent of Man, and Galton's Hereditary Genius?
I enjoyed Gregory Clark's work because it provided answers to the "why" of "why the difference".
Hive Mind was also influential because it explained why pure individualism is a dead end.
I feel like in the modern era there are lots of HBD blogs out there with significant work that doesn't come in a book but adds up to a lot of knowledge.
"I enjoyed Gregory Clark's work because it provided answers to the "why" of "why the difference"."
Yes, I thought it deserved the top spot, along with the 10k Year Explosion, for that reason. The other books mostly just rehabilitate what was common knowledge 100 years ago.
Most of us here are not researchers so books like Murray's "The Bell Curve" or Plomin's "Blueprint" appeal to us. Arthur Jensen is a great figure in IQ research but his work is simply not accessible even to your readers here.
He never got around to writing for the masses like with Plomin or Reich.
I did not see Pinker's or Caplan's excellent books as being HBD-titles. Is any book HBD if it assumes: humans are not all the same / there are - among others - genetic differences / those are "not that easily" malleable by "public education"? - My impression is that "HBD" is understood to be: claims of the type "Average IQ/g of people in Ghana is significantly below the IQ/g of people in Vietnam". - A claim, which seems to be accurate - and traces of it can be found in all the titles, but ... - Obviously Darwin On the Origin of Species would have won the contest hands down, if included. But is it HBD?
"Human biodiversity here used in the broad sense of any study of biological human differences whether these are between individuals, sexes, ethnics, sexual orientations etc.", literally the second sentence.
Pinker's Blank Slate is an attack on the denial of this, and Caplan's book is indirectly about the heritability of social status.
I am sorry. I managed to overlook (over-scroll) the 2nd sentence. Rephrasing needed on my side, I still doubt such a super-broad sense to be useful or even honest. I can see why you count Blank slate and Caplan "in". Btw: Blank Slate is my fav. book ever (and I am old). Still, counting Bell Curve as HBD is fine. A list of other titles directly dealing with HBD is a laudable effort, fine. But not Pinker and even less Caplan are really a good fit. Bad analogy: In a ranking "most important book about astronomy", would I include each that agrees on "earth is round and moves around the sun"?
It seems that the intellectual elite doesn't like dutton, mcdonald and anti-modernism very much.
I am sure dutton can explain this with mutation loading:)
You mean the CIA. The CIA can be found to have links to all these major books/writters, either through intermediaries like Epstein (Pinker), connections and fundings through foundations (Murray with neocon AEI), or ideological/political connections as in anti-Islamic sentiment (Dawkins and new"atheists" who became famous not for their arguments in their respective books, but because their anti-religious sentiment was directed at Islam and "coincided" with the wars in the middle east.).
The CIA has a liberal wing and a conservative wing.
As anyone can testify, even the so called "opposition" or alt-right is heavily pro technological progress, and they mostly express strong support for techno utopianism, same as leftists.
Is there continuing value in now outmoded scientific classics like Cavalli-Sforza's History and Geography of Human Genes, Coon's Living Races of Man, Darwin's Descent of Man, and Galton's Hereditary Genius?
I enjoyed Gregory Clark's work because it provided answers to the "why" of "why the difference".
Hive Mind was also influential because it explained why pure individualism is a dead end.
I feel like in the modern era there are lots of HBD blogs out there with significant work that doesn't come in a book but adds up to a lot of knowledge.
"I enjoyed Gregory Clark's work because it provided answers to the "why" of "why the difference"."
Yes, I thought it deserved the top spot, along with the 10k Year Explosion, for that reason. The other books mostly just rehabilitate what was common knowledge 100 years ago.
Most of us here are not researchers so books like Murray's "The Bell Curve" or Plomin's "Blueprint" appeal to us. Arthur Jensen is a great figure in IQ research but his work is simply not accessible even to your readers here.
He never got around to writing for the masses like with Plomin or Reich.
I did not see Pinker's or Caplan's excellent books as being HBD-titles. Is any book HBD if it assumes: humans are not all the same / there are - among others - genetic differences / those are "not that easily" malleable by "public education"? - My impression is that "HBD" is understood to be: claims of the type "Average IQ/g of people in Ghana is significantly below the IQ/g of people in Vietnam". - A claim, which seems to be accurate - and traces of it can be found in all the titles, but ... - Obviously Darwin On the Origin of Species would have won the contest hands down, if included. But is it HBD?
"Human biodiversity here used in the broad sense of any study of biological human differences whether these are between individuals, sexes, ethnics, sexual orientations etc.", literally the second sentence.
Pinker's Blank Slate is an attack on the denial of this, and Caplan's book is indirectly about the heritability of social status.
I am sorry. I managed to overlook (over-scroll) the 2nd sentence. Rephrasing needed on my side, I still doubt such a super-broad sense to be useful or even honest. I can see why you count Blank slate and Caplan "in". Btw: Blank Slate is my fav. book ever (and I am old). Still, counting Bell Curve as HBD is fine. A list of other titles directly dealing with HBD is a laudable effort, fine. But not Pinker and even less Caplan are really a good fit. Bad analogy: In a ranking "most important book about astronomy", would I include each that agrees on "earth is round and moves around the sun"?
HBD was always intended in the broad sense. The leftist attacks is why the narrow sense meaning of race differences arose.
Why didn't you rate Essays in Eugenics?
It's the only book I didn't read on the list.