![]() Among the more egregious common beliefs, it was held that prostitutes had a greater-than-normal separation between their first and second toes, a mark of their kinship to simians. He builds his case in a series of chapters describing prevailing pre-Darwinian and later 19th- and 20th-century thought-which overwhelmingly proclaimed the ascendancy of the white upper-class male (and the inferiority of all others). These are the accusations against the biological determinism of intelligence that Gould (The Panda's Thumb, Ever Since Darwin) musters in this latest, most systematic assault. ![]() "Shared dogmas masquerading as objectivity". ![]()
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