:"'response to Ramdrake's comment "': Ramdrake claims that I think the Snyderman and Rothman survey proves that hereditarianism is prevalent among intelligence reseachers.
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These opposing points of view are part of a more general nature vs . nurture ( or hereditarianism vs . environmentalist ) debate that dates back to Ancient Greeks like Plato and Aristotle.
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The true causes of racial-group differences in IQ, or in any other characteristic, are likely to be too complex to be captured by locating them on a single hereditarianism-environmentalism dimension ."
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In 1995 and 1996 Pearson published a trilogy of articles in " Mankind Quarterly " regarding the " Concept of heredity in Western thought ", a defense of hereditarianism and an denouncement of the " onslaught of egalitarianism ".
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In his first article, " Heritability and Causality " ( Sesardic 1993 ), Sesardic argues that the environmentalist criticism of hereditarianism greatly exaggerate in claiming that the explanation of human behavior in terms of genes is faced with methodological problems and flaws.
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I see that the latest edit to the article Hereditarianism is a section blanking by Maunus, essentially a self-revert of his previous edits there . I appreciate his concern, expressed in the edit summary, to ensure correct sourcing of the entire section, and indeed of the entire article.
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SPSSI commended the booklet s central thesis, That there is no real evidence for the belief in the innate superiority of any one race over any other, and that racism is therefore superstition . It was one of SPSSI s first statements against hereditarianism in race science, a cause it has embraced throughout its history.
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On the other hand, Alain Benoist occasionally contributed to the " Mankind Quarterly " review, which insists on hereditarianism and associated with the US think tank Pioneer Fund, headed by J . Philippe Rushton, author of " Race, Evolution and Behavior " ( 1995 ), which argues in favour of a biological conception of " race and intelligence debate, postulating that there is an identifiable link between levels of intelligence and distinct ethnic groups.
