Review: Making sense of heritability

Download: http://www.libgen.net/search.php?search_type=magic&search_text=making+sense+of+heritability&submit=Dig+for   This is a GREAT book, which goes down to the basics about heritability and the various claims people have made against it. Highly recommended. Best book of…

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Review: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

[Bryan_Caplan]_The_Myth_of_the_Rational_Voter_Why(Bookos.org)   This is very interesting book. Most interesting I've read in a while.   -   If neither way of verifying the existence of preferences over beliefs appeals to…

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Review: Helmuth Nyborg ed., The scientific study of general intelligence

[Helmuth_Nyborg]_The_Scientific_Study_of_General_I(Bookos.org) From Introduction It has been said: If you have no enemies, you have no point of view. Art has many enemies, and I will describe some of the more…

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Review: Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century (John Glad)

Found here: http://whatwemaybe.org/ http://whatwemaybe.org/txt/txt0000/glad.john.2006.future_human_evolution.book.full.003k.en.pdf The homepage is really weird, but the book turned out to be... pretty good. At first I was not impressed, especially because he went into insufficient…

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Review: Missing the Revolution: Darwinism for Social Scientists (Barkow ed.)

[Jerome_H._Barkow]_Missing_the_Revolution_Darwini(Bookos.org) In general, this was a short and interesting read. Made me want to read other material by Anne Campbell. The last chapter is skipable, just as Kanazawa said when…

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