Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

A fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.

The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:

• Gender is a social construct.
• Race is a social construct.
• Class is a function of privilege.

The problem is that all three dogmas are half-truths. They have stifled progress in understan...