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  guns, 311

  Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 68

  Guns of August, The (Tuchman), 324, 334

  Gur, Batya, 246

  Gur, Raquel, 342

  Gypsies, 154

  habit system, 40

  Hacking, Ian, 202

  Hadley, Robert, 80

  Haidt, Jonathan, 270, 272, 273

  Haldane, J.B.S., 153

  Halpern, Diane, 121, 342

  Hamilton, Alexander, 287, 297

  Hamilton, William, 108, 109, 111, 244, 255

  Harris, Judith Rich, viii, 320, 381, 385, 390, 395–99

  Harris, Marvin, 63–64

  “Harrison Bergeron” (Vonnegut), 424–25

  Harvey, William, 30

  Hatch, Orrin, 226

  Hausman, Patti, 352, 353

  Hawaiian language, 14–15

  Hawkes, Kristen, 342

  Hayek, Friedrich, 151, 287, 291, 292

  Healey, Bernadine, 314

  Hebb, D.O., 92

  Hegel, G.W.F., 284

  Heisenberg, Werner, 410

  Hepburn, Katharine, 163

  heritability, 45–47, 49–51, 373–78

  of intelligence, 47, 146–47, 150, 297, 374–75, 376–78

  of political attitudes, 47, 283

  Hernadi, Paul, 417

  Herrnstein, Richard, viii, 106, 146–47, 302

  Hillel, 193

  Hillenbrand, Lynne, 358

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 130

  Hinduism, 272

  Hines, Melissa, 342

  Hirshleifer, Jack, 259

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 402

  Hitler, Adolf, 153–55, 157, 189

  Hobbes, Thomas, 7–8, 33, 35, 56, 193, 285, 287, 296, 18–19, 322–24, 325, 329–30, 332, 335

  Hoffer, Eric, 63

  Hogan, Patrick, 417

  Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 181, 287, 291

  homosexuality, 44, 46, 93–94, 154, 164, 201–2

  honor, violent behavior and, 326–29, 428–31

  Horace, 406

  Horowitz, Donald, 333

  How the Mind Works (Pinker), 80, 393

  Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer, 250, 342

  Hubel, David, 97, 108

  Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of (Twain), 428–31

  Human Genome Project, xi, 74, 75–78, 135, 377

  humanities, 6, 31, 60, 68, 69–72, 75, 134, 285, 356, 400–420

  Human Universals (Brown), 435–39

  Humboldt, Alexander von, 301

  Hume, David, 79, 178, 180, 279, 296, 408

  Hummel, John, 80

  Hunt, Morton, 128

  hunter-gatherer societies, 53, 63, 68, 233–34, 294, 306–7, 316

  Hurtado, Magdalena, 342

  Huston, Anjelica, 432

  hyperreality, 214

  identity politics, 206–7

  Ifaluk, 38–39

  imagery, see psychology, of imagery

  images, 213–18

  imitation, 60–62, 63–65

  immigration, 17, 391

  inequality, 141–58, 304

  infanticide, 227, 248–49

  information, 31–34, 238

  Inge, Dean, 287

  Inherit the Wind, 130

  Inquisition, 137

  insanity defense, 183–84

  intellectual property, 238

  intelligence, 33, 44, 106–7, 238, 375

  denials of, 149–50

  heritability of, 47, 146–47, 150, 297, 374–75, 376–78

  multiple, 219

  intelligence quotient (IQ) tests, viii, 106–7, 134–35, 145, 146–47, 201, 301–2, 378

  behavioral genetics and, 373, 379

  Intelligent Design, 130, 133

  interest, lending at, 234–35

  intuitive psychology, see theory of mind

  Iroquois Federation, 296

  Israel, 246, 257, 311

  It Takes a Village (Clinton), 394

  Jackson, Andrew, 328

  James, Oliver, 393

  James, William, 19, 56, 203, 417–18

  Japan, 310, 369, 408

  Japanese-Americans, 312

  Japanese language, 37–38, 71

  Jefferson, Thomas, 145

  Jensen, Arthur, 107

  Jespersen, Otto, 14–15, 22

  Jesus Christ, 193

  Jews, 16, 17, 22, 66, 130, 141, 143, 152, 154, 201, 204, 217, 235, 251, 274, 431–32

  Jivaro, 117–18

  John Paul II, Pope, 130, 186, 224

  Johnson, Lyndon, 286, 292, 298, 308, 313

  Johnson, Philip, 130

  Johnson, Samuel, 30, 137, 142, 418

  Jones, Owen, 165, 176, 367, 371

  Jong, Erica, 253, 254

  Joshua, 137

  judicial activism, 291

  Jumpers (Stoppard), 321–22

  Junger, Sebastian, 258

  junk DNA, 78

  Just Society, 286

  Kagan, Jerome, 394–95

  Kahneman, Daniel, 302

  Kamin, Leon, 112, 113, 114, 122–23, 126, 378

  Kaminer, Wendy, 342

  Kant, Immanuel, 180, 193, 287, 301, 332–33

  Kantor, J.R., 19–20

  Karamazov, Dmitri, 85

  Kasparov, Garry, 34

  Kass, Leon, 130, 133, 274, 339–40

  Katz, Lawrence, 97–98

  Keegan, John, 333

  Keeley, Lawrence, 56, 57

  Keil, Frank, 230

  Kelly, Alice, 382

  Kennedy, Edward M., 289–90

  Kennedy, John F., 334

  Kennedy, Randall, 331

  Kennedy, Robert F., 287–88, 289–90, 300

  Kenrick, Douglas, 316

  Kevles, Betty, 308

  Kevles, Daniel, 308

  Keynes, John Maynard, 153

  Khmer Rouge, 152, 156

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 334

  kibbutzim, 246, 257, 346

  Kimball, Roger, 130

  Kimura, Doreen, 342

  Kindlon, Dan, 309

  Kleinfeld, Judith, 342, 353, 359

  Klineberg, Otto, 27

  Koch, Christof, 88

  Koch, Robert, 154

  Koertge, Noretta, 342

  Kohlberg, Lawrence, 291

  Kohn, Alfie, 309

  Komar, Vitaly, 408–9

  Koss, Mary, 369, 370

  Kosslyn, Stephen, 215

  Kristol, Irving, 130–31

  Kroeber, Albert, 23, 28, 29, 31, 108, 156, 284

  Kropotkin, Peter, 255

  Kubrick, Stanley, 337

  kulaks, 152, 158

  !Kung San, 56

  Laframboise, Donna, 342

  laissez-faire economics, 303

  Landers, Ann, 47

  language, 22–23, 37–38, 48, 49, 60, 62–63, 168, 180, 221, 223, 236, 238, 391, 406, 410, 415, 417, 426

  acquisition of, 38, 39, 53, 60, 62–63, 70–7, 391

  brain and, 99

  change in, 66, 71

  levels of analysis of, 70–72

  neural networks and, 81–83

  thought and, 207–11, 426

  Laski, Harold, 153, 183

  Lawrence, D.H., 159

  Lazarus, Richard, 39

  learnability theory, 101

  Le Corbusier, 170–71

  Lefkowitz, Mary, 342

  left-handedness, 121

  Lehrman, Karen, 343, 353

  Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 34

  Lenin, V.L, 152, 156, 158

  Leo, John, 394

  Lepowsky, Maria, 339

  Lessing, Doris, 343

  leviathan, 7–8, 318–319, 330–32

  Leviathan (Hobbes), 7, 318–19

  Levins, Richard, 126

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 285

  Levy, Jerre, 342

  Lewinsky, Monica, 211

  Lewontin, Richard, 109, 111, 112, 113–14, 122–23, 124, 126, 127, 128, 133, 255, 378

  liberal arts, 401–20

  liberalism, 5, 11, 103, 118, 153, 281, 283–305, 311, 331, 341, 3
42, 416

  Lifelines: Biology Beyond Determinism (Rose), 115

  Limits of Family Influence, The (Rowe), 381

  Lincoln, Abraham, 145–46

  Linguistic Determinism hypothesis, 207–8

  linguistics, 14–15, 35–39, 154, 208, 390–91, 417

  Lippmann, Walter, 201

  Lipstick Lesbians, 343

  living wills, 227

  Lloyd, Alan, 264

  Locke, John, 5–6, 12, 18, 19, 34–35, 79, 124, 193, 285, 286, 296, 301

  logic, 221, 236

  Lomax, Alan, Jr., 108

  Lord of the Flies (Golding), 124

  Lorenz, Konrad, 124, 324

  Los Angeles Times, 211–12

  Lott, John, 311

  “Lottery in Babylon, The” (Borges), 59

  Loury, Glenn, 206

  Love Canal, 278

  Low, Bobbie, 342

  Lowie, Robert, 26, 28, 29, 31

  Lubinski, David, 356

  luck, life paths and, 396

  Lutz, Catherine, 38

  Lyell, Charles, 30

  Lykken, David, 381

  McCarthy, Joseph, 119

  McClelland, James, 21, 35, 74

  McClintock, Martha, 342

  McElroy, Wendy, 342, 363, 364, 370

  McGinnis, John, 296, 297, 298

  McGue, Matt, 376

  McGuinness, Diane, 342

  Machiavelli, Niccolò, 285

  Machiavellian traits, 259–60

  MacKinnon, Catharine, 171, 365

  McVeigh, Timothy, 309, 311

  Madison, James, 287, 296, 297–98

  Maeterlinck, Maurice, 287

  Mahabharata, 193

  Mailer, Norman, 261–62

  Mallon, Ron, 38

  Malthus, Thomas, 236, 238

  Man and Aggression (Montagu), 124

  Mansfield, Harvey, 339

  Man Who Came to Dinner, The, 403

  Mao Zedong, 11, 65, 126–27, 156, 158

  Mapplethorpe, Robert, 414

  March of Folly, The: From Troy to Vietnam (Tuchman), 324

  Marcos, Ferdinand, 56

  Marcus, Gary, 80

  Margaret Mead and Samoa (Freeman), 115

  Marr, David, 70, 405

  Martindale, Colin, 412

  Marx, Karl, 127, 131, 155, 157, 161, 255, 284, 295, 299, 301

  Marx Brothers, 402

  Marxism, 106, 123, 126, 155–58, 170, 284, 285, 286–87, 296, 299, 303, 341, 411, 427

  Masters, Roger, 164, 284, 286

  materialism, 123, 126, 187

  Mating Mind, The (Miller), 407

  Matrix, The, 215

  Mayr, Ernst, 146, 231

  Mazursky, Paul, 432

  Mead, Margaret, 25, 26, 56, 108, 359, 422

  Mealey, Linda, 261, 342

  media:

  images in, 213–18

  stereotypes in, 201, 204–6

  violence and, 311

  Mehler, Barry, 378

  Melamid, Alexander, 408–9

  Melzack, Ronald, 98

  memory, 32, 40, 42, 203, 209–10, 214–16

  Mencken, H.L., 26, 276

  Mendel, Gregor, 30, 305

  Mengele, Josef, 378

  Menninger, Karl, 181

  metaphor, 11, 209, 273, 313, 317

  Mill, John Stuart, 18, 79

  Miller, Geoffrey, 366, 407, 408

  Miller, J. Hillis, 208

  Miller, Kristen, 178

  Milne, A. A., 175

  mind:

  as complex system, 39–40, 55

  computational theory of, 31–34

  concept of 9–10, 31–34

  dualism and, 8–9, 10, 223–27

  East Pole–West Pole debate over, 35–36, 75, 84, 219–20

  in Judeo-Christian theory of human nature, 1

  levels of analysis of, 70–71

  limits of, 239

  modules of, 39–41, 101, 123, 166, 219–22

  theory of, see theory of mind

  universal mechanisms in, 37–39

  mind-matter divide, 8–11, 31–48

  behavioral genetics and, 45–51

  cognitive science and, 31–34

  evolutionary psychology and, 51–58

  neuroscience and, 41–45

  mind-matter divide (continued) see also dualism; Ghost in the Machine; soul

  Minogue, Kenneth, 170

  Minsky, Marvin, 80

  “Misbehavior of Organisms, The” (Breland and Breland), 20

  Mismeasure of Man, The (Gould), 149

  M’Naughten rule, 183–84

  modernism, 170–71, 409–13, 417–18

  Money, John, 349

  Montagu, Ashley, 24, 26, 27, 124, 134, 258, 307

  Monty Python’s Flying Circus, 72

  Moore, G.E., 150

  moralistic fallacy, 162–63, 178, 313

  moralization 275–77

  morality, 269–80

  basis of, 168–69, 187–90, 192–93, 224, 274–75

  cross-cultural differences in, 166–69, 271–75

  emotions and, 271–72, 279

  religion and, 186–90

  science and, 103–4, 138–39

  self-deception and, 264–66

  universality of, 168–69, 187–88, 193, 271–75

  Moral Majority, 276

  moral progress, 166–68

  Mount, Ferdinand, 246

  Muller, Hermann, 153

  Murdoch, Iris, 343, 418–19

  Murdock, George, 24

  Murray, Charles, viii, 302

  music, 402, 403, 405, 409, 410, 417

  Mutual Assured Destruction, 325

  mutualism, 242

  Myth of the First Three Years, The (Bruer), 386–87

  Napoleon I, emperor of France, 295

  National Center for Science Education, 129

  National Endowment for the Arts, 401

  National Institute of Mental Health, 312

  National Institutes of Health, 314

  National Public Radio, 166

  National Science Foundation, 359

  Native Americans, 6, 12, 22–23, 57, 115–19, 124, 212, 296, 298, 332

  Natural Classicism, 417

  natural history, intuitive, 220

  Natural History of Rape, A (Thornhill and Palmer), viii, 161, 359–69

  naturalistic fallacy, 150, 162–63, 164

  natural selection, 28, 50, 51–52, 54, 55, 83, 101, 142, 231, 249

  Dawkins on, 318–19

  sex ratios and, 343

  see also evolution

  Navajo language, 37

  Nazism, 153–58, 180–81, 272–73

  Neel, James, 115–19

  Neill, A.S., 222

  neologisms, 211–13

  nepotism, 245–46, 253, 294

  Nesse, Randolph, 264

  neural development, 83–100, 227, 386–87, 396–97

  neural networks, 21, 42, 78–83, 92

  neural plasticity, 44–45, 74, 83–100, 384–87

  brain damage and, 98–100

  of cortex vs. subcortical structures, 89

  developmental biology and, 90–100, 386–87, 396–97

  primary sensory cortex and, 87–91, 93–94

  neuroscience, 111, 131, 341–42, 386–87

  cognitive, 41–45

  commercial applications of, 87

  and Ghost in the Machine, 42, 44, 129

  mind-matter divide and, 41–45

  see also brain

  Newell, Alan, 105

  New Formalism, 417

  New Know-Nothings, The: The Political Foes of the Scientific Study of Human Nature (Hunt), 128

  Newman, Barnett, 413

  Newton, Huey, 111

  Newton, Sir Isaac, 30

  New Yorker, 46, 116, 179

  New York Review of Books, 109, 262

  New York Times, 86, 179, 339, 349, 414

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 131, 139, 207

  nihilism, 269

  religion concerns about, 186–9
0

  secular concerns about, 190–94

  Nim Chimpsky, 61

  1984 (Orwell), 425–26

  Nisbett, Richard, 327, 328

  Nixon, Richard M., 180, 236, 298

  Noble Savage, 6, 26–27, 31, 118, 119, 162, 261, 293, 381, 421

  communalism and, 255

  evolution and, 55–56

  feminism and, 339

  neuroscience and, 44

  radical science defense of, 124–26, 134

  rape and, 362

  violence and, 312, 336

  nonrival goods, 238

  Non Sequitur (comic strip), 179

  Not in Our Genes (Kamin), 112, 126

  Nozick, Robert, 149, 151

  nuclear weapons, 324, 325

  number sense, 192, 209–10, 220, 223

  Nurture Assumption, The (Harris), viii, 381, 392

  Nussbaum, Martha, 172

  Oakshott, Michael, 290

  Ofili, Chris, 414

  Oklahoma City bombing (1995), 309

  olfactory (smell) system, 93

  Onion, The, 414, 425

  orangutans, 367

  Ortega y Gasset, José, 24, 308

  Orwell, George, 321, 425–28

  Ozick, Cynthia, 343

  Paddock, Paul, 236–37

  Paddock, William, 236–37

  Paglia, Camille, 342, 343, 369–70

  Paine, Thomas, 288

  Painted Word, The, 414

  paleontology, 55, 306

  Palmer, Craig, viii, 161, 176, 359–69

  Papert, Seymour, 80

  Parallel Distributed Processing (Rumelhart, McClelland et al.), 21

  parenting, viii, ix, x, 164–65, 171–72, 378–99

  behavioral genetics and, 378–87

  conflicts in, 249–51

  individualized, 387–90

  sex differences in, 252–54, 345, 350, 357

  stepparenting, 164–65

  Parsons, Talcott, 285, 286

  Pascal, Blaise, 419

  Passmore, John, 159

  Pasteur, Louis, 154

  Patai, Daphne, 342

  Paul, Elizabeth, 253

  peers, 390–92, 395–96, 399

  Percy, Walker, 209

  perfectability, 27, 159–73

  Perfect Storm, The (Junger), 258

  Perry, Bruce, 171

  personality, 46–51, 135, 373

  socialization vs., 395

  see also traits

  Petitto, Laura, 61, 95

  phantom limbs, 98

  philosophy, 5–13, 18, 22, 23, 33, 34–35, 38–39, 64–65, 69–70, 101, 137–39, 145–48, 150–52, 159, 162, 164, 166–68, 169–70, 172, 174–78, 179–85, 187–89, 192–93, 207, 216, 227–29, 239–40, 274–75, 279–80, 287–88, 296–98, 318–32, 335–36, 337–38

  Philosophy and Literature, 415

  physical fallacy, 234

  physics, 30, 137, 239

  intuitive, 220, 223, 239

  Picasso, Pablo, 409

  Pindar, 287

  Piss Christ (Serrano), 414

  Plato, 192, 284, 285

  Plomin, Robert, 381

  Pocahontas, 12

  politics, 283–305

  see also convervatism; liberalism; radical science movement