Quoted on p. 293 of GossettT. F., Race, the history of an idea in America (New York, 1965).
2.
Agassiz opposed evolutionary ideas right up to his death in 1873. Among taxonomists, he was an extreme ‘splitter’, prone to recognize specific difference by any consistent morphological trait distinguishing two geographically separate groups.
3.
Gossett, op. cit. (ref. 1), 335–6.
4.
GillispieC. C., “Remarks on social selection as a factor in the progressivism of science”, American scientist, lvi (1968), 439–50.
5.
Gillispie, op. cit., 443.
6.
Gillispie, op. cit., 443–4.
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YerkesR. M., “The Binet versus the point scale method of measuring intelligence”, Journal of applied psychology, i (1917), 111–22, pp. 111–12.
8.
YerkesR. M., “How may we discover the children who need special care”, Mental hygiene, i (1917), 259.
9.
YerkesR. M., “Eugenic bearing of measurements of intelligence in the United States Army”, Eugenics review (1923), 2.
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YerkesR. M., op. cit. (ref. 9), 1–2.
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YerkesR. M., “Progress and peace”, Scientific monthly (1915), 199–200.
12.
YerkesR. M., op. cit. (ref. 9), 18.
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On the history of attitudes on race in America, see: HallerJ. S.Jr., Outcasts from evolution, scientific attitudes of racial inferiority 1859–1900 (Urbana, 1971); GossettT. F., op. cit. (ref.1); JordanW. D., White over black, American attitudes towards the Negro, 1550–1812 (Baltimore, 1969); StantonW., The leopard's spots, scientific attitudes towards race in America, 1815–1859 (Chicago, 1960).
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JensenA. R., “How much can we boost IQ and scholastic achievement?”, Harvard educational review, xxxix (1969), 2.
