Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It take…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology. ✨ Stephen Jay Gould (2006). The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded), p.36, W. W. Norton & Company
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