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"I'll be shocked if there's another book this year as important as Charles Murray's Coming Apart."- p.

Human Diversity does so without sensationalism, drawing on the most authoritative scientific findings, celebrating both our many differences and our common humanity. Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class (Twelve Books.

"There are no monsters in the closet," Murray writes, "no dread doors we must fear opening." But it is a story that needs telling. Hayek Chair Emeritus in Cultural Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. They have stifled progress in understanding the rich texture that biology adds to our understanding of the social, political, and economic worlds we live in. The problem is that all three dogmas are half-truths. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas: 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. All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same - a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.