The pity is that this book should not have had to be written. It is hard to imagine a better introduction to, as the book’s subtitle baldly puts it, the biology of gender, race, and class. Murray has a gift for explaining science. This is his most scientifically ambitious book - much of the material comes from genetics research that uses complex, cutting-edge analysis - but Dr. Murray bases his conclusions on an exhaustive survey of the relevant literature. (3) Increasingly, the people who are rich and influential got that way because they have biologically rooted talents and abilities, not because of unfair privilege.Īs he always does, Dr. (2) Human populations have evolved so many genetic differences that different groups cannot be expected to think and behave identically. In Human Diversity, Charles Murray sets out to demonstrate three things: (1) There are biological reasons why men and women behave differently. Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, Grand Central Publishing, 2020, 528 pp., $31.50.
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