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NOTE: Feel free to read the full review, but I can sum it up in a fact. Gould need only have written the two-page epilogue to his book, a concise essay, rather than the remainder of the book. In fact, the entire thing is just so much pink fiberglass insulation leading up to the final page of the book. Everything he intended to say is there without any jargon or facts and figures. As a teacher, I intend to photocopy and teach that page alone. Carry on if desired.
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This is a book to make one angry: How dare we judge other people, especially other races, by using scientific techniques in the ways Gould so eloquently describes? It is however quite fascinating, necessary if abhorrent pieces of history and a lesson for the present, for racism and prejudice against those other than ourselves are still insidious parts of the human experience. All of his disputations are vastly detailed, excellent and careful in making his point but sometimes a wee bit tedious to
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