Abstract: | "In Genes, Brains, and Human Potential, Ken Richardson illustrates how the ideology of human intelligence has infiltrated genetics, the brain sciences, and psychology, flourishing in the vagueness of basic concepts, a shallow nature-versus-nurture debate, and the overhyped claims of reductionists. He shows how ideology, more than pure science, has come to dominate our institutions, especially education, encouraging fatalism about the development of human intelligence among individuals and societies. Building on work being done in molecular biology, epigenetics, dynamical systems, evolution theory, and complexity theory, Richardson maps a fresh understanding of intelligence and the development of human potential informed by a more complete and nuanced understanding of both ideology and science."--Jacket Pinning down potential -- Pretend genes -- Pretend intelligence -- Real genes, real intelligence -- Intelligent development -- How the brain makes potential -- A creative cognition -- Potential between brains : social intelligence -- Human intelligence -- Promoting potential -- The problems of education are not genetic -- Summary and conclusions |
