The Road to Equality: Evolution and Social RealityBloomsbury Academic, 1992 M09 21 - 232 pages Why does poverty exist? Why is there social pathology and human degradation? Is it always because of oppression and discrimination? No, says Professor Seymour Itzkoff of Smith College. The real reason is the tragedy of low human intelligence, and the consequent inability of humans to compete in highly complex and dynamic economic and social environments. The Road to Equality: Evolution and Social Reality, contains Itzkoff's highly controversial analysis of the failures of the welfare approach to helping the poor. It also contains his radical solution to the perennial problems of inequality in nations and the consequent turmoil and revolution. Equalize the intelligence of your nation, Itzkoff argues, and you will soon eliminate the tragic social and economic differences between large portions of the population. It is high intelligence in groups of humans that create civilization and prosperity in the first place. Merely placing individuals of lower intelligence in such environments has not ensured their success. And it never will, predicts the professor, because it violates the facts of our evolutionary and sociobiological nature. |
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... female . The chimpanzee female , as represented in Jane Goodall's famous " Flo , " is an omnivorously sexually aggressive creature when she is in heat . She can " entertain " virtually the entire adult male population of the colony ...
... female is associated with smaller brain size as compared to the male . The male also has a somewhat larger and sturdier physique . This does not mean that males are more intelligent . Neither is female size an indication of physical ...
... female from the oppressive pressures of traditional subsis- tence disciplines . The male himself , always subjugated to the sacrifices of harsh physical labor , war , and death , felt no philanthropy toward the supposedly powerless females ...
Contents
The Promise | 1 |
The Hive Doth Not Make the Bee | 9 |
Our Intelligence Is Our Individuality | 17 |
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