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14
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American Psychologist
51 (1996): p. 77.

15
. Ibid.

16
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American Psychologist
67, no. 2 (2012): 130–59.

17
. Herrnstein and Murray,
Bell Curve
, p. 318.

18
. Ibid., p. 276.

19
. Neisser et al., “Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns”; Nisbett et al., “Intelligence: New Findings.”

20
. Herrnstein and Murray,
Bell Curve
, p. 276.

21
. Ibid., pp. 298–99.

22
. Ibid., p. 311.

23
. Rushton and Jensen, “Race Differences in Cognitive Ability.”

24
. Ibid., pp. 265–66.

25
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Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
11, no. 2 (2005): 316.

26
. R. E. Nisbett, “Heredity, Environment, and Race Differences in IQ: A Commentary on Rushton and Jensen,”
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
11, no. 2 (2005): 302.

27
. R. J. Sternberg, “There Are No Public-Policy Implications: A Reply to Rushton and Jensen,”
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
11, no. 2 (2005): 295.

28
. R. J. Sternberg, “Intelligence,”
Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience
14, no. 1 (2012): 24.

29
. C. S. Spearman, “‘General Intelligence,' Objectively Determined and Measured,”
American Journal of Psychology
15, no. 2 (1904): 201–92.

30
. Sternberg, “Intelligence,” p. 21.

31
. R. J. Sternberg, E. L. Grigorenko, and K. K. Kidd, “Intelligence, Race, and Genetics,”
American Psychologist
60, no. 2 (2005): 47.

32
. Nisbett et al., “Intelligence: New Findings,” p. 131.

33
. Ibid.

34
. Sternberg, “Intelligence.”

35
. R. C. Lewontin, “Race and Intelligence,”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
26 (1970): 2–8.

36
. Nisbett et al., “Intelligence: New Findings,” p. 132.

37
. Herrnstein and Murray,
Bell Curve
, p. 105.

38
. Ibid., p. 132.

39
. Ibid., p. 107.

40
. Nisbett et al., “Intelligence: New Findings.”

41
. R. Plomin, “Child Development and Molecular Genetics: 14 Years Later,”
Child Development
84, no. 1 (2013): 104–20.

42
. J. R. Flynn,
What Is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 2.

43
. Nisbett et al., “Intelligence: New Findings.”

44
. Ibid.

45
. T. C. Daley et al., “IQ on the Rise: The Flynn Effect in Rural Kenyan Children,”
Psychological Science
14, no. 3 (2003): 215–19; G. Meisenberg et al., “The Flynn Effect in the Caribbean: Generational Change in Test Performance in Dominica,”
Mankind Quarterly
46 (2005): 29–70.

46
. Nisbett et al., “Intelligence: New Findings,” p. 140.

47
. Ibid., p. 141.

48
. Ibid.

49
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Child Development
69, no. 4 (1998): 1223–42.

50
. R. Plomin, “Child Development and Molecular Genetics: 14 Years Later,”
Child Development
84, no. 1 (2013): 104.

51
. M. Trzaskowski et al., “DNA Evidence for Strong Genetic Stability and Increasing Heritability of Intelligence from Age 7 to 12,”
Molecular Psychiatry
19, no. 3 (2014): 380–84.

52
. C. F. Chabris et al., “Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives,”
Psychological Science
23, no. 11 (2011): 1314–23.

53
. B. Benyamin et al., “Childhood Intelligence Is Heritable, Highly Polygenic and Associated with
FNBP1L
,”
Molecular Psychiatry
19, no. 2 (2014): 253–58; G. Davies et al., “Genome-Wide Association Studies Establish That Human Intelligence Is Highly Heritable and Polygenic,”
Molecular Psychiatry
6, no. 10 (2011): 996–1005.

54
. Gould,
Mismeasure of Man
, rev. ed., p. 187.

55
. Benyamin et al., “Childhood Intelligence Is Heritable”; Davies et al., “Genome-Wide Association Studies.”

56
. For instance, using an analogy of growing corn in Iowa as opposed to the Mojave Desert to illustrate environmental differences, Herrnstein and Murray write in
The Bell Curve
, “The environment for American Blacks has been closer to the Mojave and the environment for American whites has been closer to Iowa” (p. 298).

C
HAPTER
7: T
HE
P
ERCEPTION OF
R
ACE

1
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2
. B. M. Henn et al., “Genomic Ancestry of North Africans Supports Back-to-Africa Migrations,”
PLoS Genetics
8, no. 1 (2012): e1002397.

3
. “Companion website for ‘A Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History,'”
http://admixturemap.paintmychromosomes.com
(accessed February 23, 2014).

4
. All dates for mitochondrial divergences listed in this chapter are from Soares et al., “Correcting for Purifying Selection: An Improved Human Mitochondrial Molecular Clock,”
American Journal of Human Genetics
84, no. 6 (2009): 740–59.

5
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6
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7
. G. Chin and E. Culotta, “The Science of Inequality,”
Science
344 (2014): 819–21.

8
. M. Rassmussen et al., “An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia,”
Science
334 (2011): pp. 94–98.

9
. G. R. Summerhayes et al., “Human Adaptation and Plant Use in Highland New Guinea 49,000 to 44,000 Years Ago,”
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10
. C. N. Johnson and B. W. Brook, “Reconstructing the Dynamics of Ancient Human Populations from Radiocarbon Dates: 10,000 Years of Population Growth in Australia,”
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11
. Clements, N, “The Tasmanian Black War: A Tragic Case Lest We Remember?”
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12
. Australian Government, Department of Immigration and Border Protection, “Fact Sheet 8. Abolition of the ‘White Australia' Policy,”
http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/08abolition.htm
(accessed April 19, 2014).

13
. Ibid.

14
. M. Raghavan et al., “Upper Palaeolithic Siberian Genome Reveals Dual Ancestry of Native Americans,”
Nature
505 (2014): 87–91; M. C. Dulik et al., “Mitochondrial DNA and Y Chromosome Variation Provides Evidence for a Recent Common Ancestry between Native Americans and Indigenous Altaians,”
American Journal of Human Genetics
90, no. 2 (2012): 229–46; M. V. Derenko et al., “The Presence of Mitochondrial Haplogroup X in Altaians from South Siberia,”
American Journal of Human Genetics
69, no. 1 (2001): 237–41.

15
. For a photograph of the document, see
http://people.umass.edu/derrico/amherst/34_41_114_fn.jpeg
(accessed April 27, 2014). See also P. D'Errico, “Jeffrey Amherst and Smallpox Blankets,”
http://people.umass.edu/derrico/amherst/lord_jeff.html
(accessed April 27, 2014).

16
. “Voyages,”
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Database
,
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17
. For texts of the original documents, see
http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/18%20stat%20477.pdf
,
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=47
,
http://www.sanfranciscochinatown.com/history/1892gearyact.html
,
http://library.uwb.edu/guides/usimmigration/39%20stat%20874.pdf
(accessed May 3, 2014).

18
. Except where otherwise noted, the examples described in this paragraph are derived from Hellenthal et al., “Genetic Atlas of Human Admixture History.”

19
. Statement by Alan Goodman in the transcript from episode 1 of the PBS series
Race: The Power of an Illusion
,
https://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-about-01-01.htm
(accessed April 19, 2014).

20
. Ibid. (accessed July 15, 2012).

21
. United States Census Bureau, “Race,”
http://www.census.gov/topics/population/race.html
(accessed June 25, 2014).

22
. P. N. Ossorio, “Myth and Mystification: The Science of Race and IQ,” in
Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture
, eds. S. Krimsky and K. Sloan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).

23
. Ibid. The portions in quotation marks are quoted by Ossorio from N. J. Smelser, W. J. Wilson, and F. Mitchell, eds., introduction to
America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, v. 1
(Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001), p. 4.

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