Mankind
Quarterly, Vol. 44, Nos. 3 & 4 (Spring-Summer 2004)
pp. 301-312
Society and Genes:
On the Subject of IQ Population Genetics.
John Glad
The Great War and subsequent Depression
swept away the mentality of Empire and class privilege,
leaving a vacuum that was filled by an intellectual
climate of extremist egalitarianism. Western society
of the twentieth century came to be dominated by a
new, unified ideology. Freudianism, Marxism, B.F.
Skinner's Behaviorism, Franz Boaz's cultural history,
and Margaret Mead's anthropology all stressed the
marvelous "plasticity" and even "programmability"
of Homo sapiens. The twenty-first century will witness
a retaking of ground by hereditarian thinking and
a reestablishment of balance in the nature/nurture
debate.
