Bibliography

1. Books
2. Scientific Journals
3. Websites
4. Studies
5. To Read First

1. Books (Alphabetical by Author)

Rating (max 5):

• Baker, John R. (2012). Race (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. Excellent book by an Oxford biology professor. Rating: 5/5
• Battaglioli, M.S. (2016). The Consequences of Equality. Rating: 3/5
• Cavalli-Sforza, L. (1994). The History and Geography of Human Genes. Less comprehensive. Rating: 1/5
• Cavalli-Sforza, L. (2000). Genes, People and Language. Rating: 1/5
• Cochran, G. & Harpending, H. (2009). The 10,000 Year Explosion. Rating: 3/5
• Dutton, E. (2014). Religion and Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis. Ulster Institute for Social Research. Rating: 4/5
• Entine, J. (2000). Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It. Rating: 2/5
• Eysenck, H.J. (1956). Uses and Abuses of Psychology. Rating: 2/5
• Eysenck, H.J. (1971). The IQ Argument: Race, Intelligence, and Education. Interesting but somewhat dated. Rating: 3/5
• Eysenck, H.J. (1973). The Inequality of Man. Rating: 4/5
• Eysenck, H.J. (1995). Genius: The General History of Creativity. Rating: 5/5
• Eysenck, H.J. & Eysenck, M. (1981). The Naked Mind: How the Mind Works and Why. Rating: 2/5
• Flynn, J. (2009). What is Intelligence? Biased and of limited value. Rating: 1/5
• Galton, F. (1882). Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences. Seminal work. Rating: 4/5
• Haier, R.J. (2017). The Neuroscience of Intelligence. Cambridge. Rating: 4/5
• Haier, R.J., Colom, R., & Earl, H. (2023). The Science of Human Intelligence. Bad image quality, some topics omitted. Rating: 3/5
• Hart, M.H. (2008). Understanding Human History. Full text available. Rating: 4/5
• Harvey, J. (2011). Race and Equality: The Nature of the Debate. Rating: 3/5
• Hernstein, R.J. & Murray, C. (1994). The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. American best-seller, free access. Rating: 5/5
• Jensen, A.R. (1998). The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability. Excellent and comprehensive. Rating: 5/5
• Jensen, A.R. (2006). Clocking the Mind: Mental Chronometry and Individual Differences. Excellent, but does not address racial differences. Rating: 4/5
• Jensen, A.R., Langan, C. & LoSasso. Discussion on Genius and Intelligence. Mega Foundation Interview with Arthur Jensen. Free access. Rating: 5/5
• Larivée, S. et al. (2009). Le quotient intellectuel, ses déterminants et son avenir. Rating: 4/5
• Levin, M. (1997). Why Race Matters? Rating: 3/5
• Lynch, G. & Granger, R. (2008). Big Brain: The Origin and Future of Human Intelligence. Of limited interest. Rating: 1/5
• Lynn, R. (1996). Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations. Outstanding work. Rating: 5/5
• Lynn, R. (2001). Eugenics: A Reassessment. Rating: 5/5
• Lynn, R. (2001). The Science of Human Diversity: A History of the Pioneer Fund. Rating: 5/5
• Lynn, R. (2006, 2nd ed. 2015). Race Differences in Intelligence. Masterfully written, highly influential. Free access. Rating: 5/5
• Lynn, R. (2008). The Global Bell Curve. Rating: 5/5
• Lynn, R. (2011). The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement. Rating: 4/5
• Lynn, R. & Vanhanen, T. (2002). IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Rating: 4/5
• Lynn, R. & Vanhanen, T. (2006). IQ and Global Inequality. More in-depth and accessible. Rating: 5/5
• Lynn, R. & Vanhanen, T. (2012). Intelligence: A Unifying Construct for the Social Sciences. Rating: 5/5
• Lynn, R. & Dutton, E. (2015). Race and Sport: Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Abilities. Recommended for those interested in race and sports. Rating: 4/5
• Mackintosh, N.J. (1998). IQ and Human Intelligence. Rating: 1/5
• Meisenberg, G. (2007). In God’s Image: The Natural History of Intelligence and Ethics. Rating: 3/5
• Miele, F. Intelligence, Race, and Genetics: Conversation with Arthur R. Jensen. Rating: 3/5
• Miele, F. & Sarich, V. Race: The Reality of Human Differences. Too historical, lack of structure. Moderately interesting. Rating: 2/5
• Miller, A.S. & Kanazawa, S. (2008). Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters. Engaging evolutionary psychology in Q&A format. Rating: 4/5
• Miller, James D. (2012). Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer and More Dangerous World. Exciting biotechnology perspectives. Rating: 5/5
• Murray, C. (2004). Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C to 1950. Rating: 4/5
• Murray, C. (2020). Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class. Rating: 2/5
• New Century Foundation (2016). The Color of Crime: Race, Crime, and Justice in America (Revised Edition). Rating: 4/5
• Nyborg, H. et al. (1997). The Scientific Study of Human Nature: Tribute to Hans J. Eysenck at Eighty. Rating: 4/5
• Nyborg, H. et al. (2003). The Scientific Study of General Intelligence: Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen. Rating: 5/5
• Nyborg, H. et al. (2014). Race and Sex Differences in Intelligence and Personality: A Tribute to Richard Lynn at Eighty. Rating: 5/5
• Obertone, L. (2018). La France interdite, la vérité sur l’immigration. Discusses IQ trends in Europe and immigration. Rating: 4/5
• Oleson, J.C. (2016). Criminal Genius: A Portrait of High-IQ Offenders. Rating: 3/5
• Plomin, R. (2018). Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are. Rating: 5/5
• Plomin, R., deFries, McClearn, Rutter (1999). Behavior Genetics (2nd ed.). Rating: 4/5
• Rindermann, H. (2018). Cognitive Capitalism: Human Capital and the Wellbeing of Nations. Rating: 5/5
• Roth, B.M. (2010). The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature. Rating: 4/5
• Ritchie, S. (2016). Intelligence: All That Matters. Concise introduction. Rating: 3/5
• Rushton, J.P. (2000). Race, Evolution and Behavior. Rating: 4/5
• Taylor, J. & McDaniel, G. (2002). A Race Against Time. Rating: 2/5
• Vanhanen, T. (2009). The Limits of Democratisation. Rating: 4/5
• Wade, N. (2014). A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History. Lacks some graphics. Rating: 4/5
• Warne, Russel T. (2020). In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths About Human Intelligence. Excellent overview. Rating: 5/5

2. Scientific Journals

• Mankind Quarterly Highly recommended
• Intelligence Highly recommended
• Personality and Individual Differences
• Cognitive Psychology

3. Websites

• • Official Richard Lynn website
  • La Griffe du Lion – Various interesting analyses
  • Emil Kirkegaard – Wide-ranging analyses
  • Human Varieties
  • Le Sacre du Printemps
  • Henry Harpending’s homepage
  • Arthur Jensen Website
  • Human Varieties (blog)

4. Studies (In Alphabetical Order of Authors)

• Allik J. (2011) “National differences in personality.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.05.011
• Beaver K.M. and Wright J.P. (2009) “School-level genetic variation predicts school-level verbal IQ scores: Results from a sample of American middle and high schools.” Intelligence 39, 193–197.
• Beaver K.M. and Wright J.P. (2011) “The association between county-level IQ and county-level crime rates.” Intelligence 39, 22–26.
• Benyamin B. et al. (2013) “Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L.” Molecular Psychiatry, 1–6.
• Corballis M.C. (2011) “BOOK REVIEW: A frontal approach to intelligence.” Brain.
• Davies G. et al. (2011) “Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic.” Nature, Molecular Psychiatry.
• Dear I.J. et al. (2015) “The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic.” Int. J. Epidemiol. Advance Access published July 26, 2015.
• Freitas da Rocha A., Rocha F.T. et Massad E. (2011) “The Brain as a Distributed Intelligent Processing System: An EEG Study.” PLoS ONE 6(3), e17355.
• Garett J. “Human Capital in the Creation of Social Capital: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking.”
• Gelade G.A. (2008) “The geography of IQ.” Intelligence 36, 495–501.
• Guven C. (2011) “Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages: Cross-National Evidence from Europe.”
• Hafer R.W. (2016) “Cross-country evidence on the link between IQ and financial development.” Intelligence 55, 7–13.
• Hafer, R.W., “New estimates on the relationship between IQ, economic growth and welfare.” Intelligence (2017)
• Jensen A.R. (2011) “The theory of intelligence and its measurement.” Intelligence 39, 171–177.
• Jones G. (2011) “National IQ and National Productivity: The Hive Mind Across Asia.” Asian Development Review 28, 51−71.
• Jung R.E. & Haier R.J. (2007) “The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence: Converging neuroimaging evidence.” Cambridge University Press.
• Kagitcibasi C. & Biricik D. (2011) “Generational gains on the Draw-a-Person IQ scores: A three-decade comparison from Turkey.” Intelligence, doi:10.1016/j.intell.2011.06.001
• Kanazawa S. (2011) “The evolution of general intelligence.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.05.015
• Karama S. et al. (2011) “Cortical thickness correlates of specific cognitive performance accounted for by the general factor of intelligence in healthy children aged 6 to 18.” NeuroImage 55, 1443–1453
• Karlsson H. et al. “Association between erythrocyte sedimentation rate and IQ in Swedish males aged 18–20.” Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 24 (2010) 868–873.
• Loehlin J.C. (2011) “Correlation between general factors for personality and cognitive skills in the National Merit twin sample.” Journal of Research in Personality doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2011.06.011
• Lynn R. (2009) “What has caused the Flynn effect? Secular increases in the Development Quotients of infants.” Intelligence 37, 16–24.
• Lynn R. (2010) “Consistency of race differences in intelligence over millennia: A comment on Wicherts, Borsboom and Dolan.” Personality and Individual Differences 48, 100–101
• Lynn R. (2010) “IQ differences between the north and south of Italy: A reply to Beraldo and Cornoldi, Belacchi, Giofre, Martini, and Tressoldi.” Intelligence 38, 451–455.
• Lynn R. (2012) “IQs predict differences in the technological development of nations from 1000 BC through 2000 AD.” Intelligence.
• Lynn R. & Longley D. (2006) “On the high intelligence and cognitive achievements of Jews in Britain.” Intelligence 34, 541–547.
• Lynn R. & Harvey J. (2008) “The decline of the world’s IQ.” Intelligence 36 (2008) 112–120.
• Lynn R. & Grigoriev A. (2009) “Studies of socioeconomic and ethnic differences in intelligence in the former Soviet Union in the early twentieth century.” Intelligence 37, 447–452.
• Lynn R. & Mikk J. (2009) “National IQs predict educational attainment in math, reading and science across 56 nations.” Intelligence 37, 305–310.
• Lynn R. & Meisenberg G. (2010) “National IQs calculated and validated for 108 nations.” Intelligence 38, 353–360.
• Lynn R. & Kanazawa S. (2011) “A longitudinal study of sex differences in intelligence at ages 7, 11 and 16 years.” Personality and Individual Differences 51, 321–324.
• Lynn R. & Liu (2011) “Factor structure and sex differences on the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence in China, Japan and United States.” Personality and Individual Differences 50, 1222–1226.
• Lynn R. & Vanhanen T. (2012) “National IQs: A review of their educational, cognitive, economic, political, demographic, sociological, epidemiological, geographic and climatic correlates.” Intelligence doi:10.1016/j.intell.2011.11.004
• Matzel M.D., Wass C., and Kolata S. (2011) “Individual Differences in Animal Intelligence: Learning, Reasoning, Selective Attention and Inter-Species Conservation of a Cognitive Trait.” International Journal of Comparative Psychology 24, 36-59.
• Meisenberg, G. (2010) “The reproduction of intelligence.” Intelligence 38, 220–230.
• Meisenberg, G. (2011) “National IQ and economic outcomes.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.022
• Mikk J. et al. (2011) “Sex differences in educational attainment.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.003
• Nyborg H. (2011) “A conversation with Richard Lynn.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.03
• Nyborg H. (2011) “The decay of western civilisation: double relaxed darwinian selection.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.031
• Nyborg H. (2011) “Migratory selection for inversely related covariant T-, and IQ-Nexus traits: Testing the IQ/T-Geo-Climatic-Origin theory by the General Trait Covariance model.” Personality and Individual Differences.
• Piffer D. (2015) “A review of intelligence GWAS hits: Their relationship to country IQ and the issue of spatial autocorrelation.” Intelligence 53, 43–50
• Piffer D., Woodley M.A., Younuskunju S., Balan B. (2017) “Holocene selection for variants associated with cognitive ability: comparing ancient and modern genomes.”
• Plomin R. et al. (2014), “Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings.” Molecular Psychiatry, open access at www.nature.com.
• Plomin R. et al. (2018) “The new genetics of intelligence.” Nature.
• Potrafke N. (2012) “Intelligence and corruption.” Economics Letters 114, 109–112.
• Prokosch M.D. et al. (2005) “Intelligence tests with higher g-loadings show higher correlations with body symmetry: Evidence for a general fitness factor mediated by developmental stability.” Intelligence 33, 203–213.
• Reader S.M., Hager Y., et al. (2011) “The evolution of primate general and cultural intelligence.” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 366, 1017–1027 doi:10.1098/rstb.2010.0342
• Reeve C.L. & Basalik D. (2010) “Average state IQ, state wealth and racial composition as predictors of state health statistics: Partial support for ‘g’ as a fundamental cause of health disparities.” Intelligence 38, 282–289.
• Reich D. (2018) “How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of Race.” New York Times.
• Rindermann, H. (2011) “Intellectual classes, technological progress and economic development: The rise of cognitive capitalism.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.001.
• Rushton J.P. (1992) “Cranial capacity related to sex, rank and race in a stratified random sample of 6325 military personnel.” Intelligence 16, 401-413.
• Rushton J.P. (2004) “Progressive Changes in Brain Size and Musculo-Skeletal Traits in Seven Hominoïds populations.” Human Evolution 19(3), 173-196.
• Rushton J.P. (2009) “Whole brain size and general mental ability: a review.” Int J Neurosci 119(5): 692–732.
• Rushton J.P. (2010) “Brain size as an explanation of national differences in IQ, longevity, and other life-history variables.” Personality and Individual Differences 48, 97–99.
• Rushton J.P. (2011) “Life history theory and race differences: An appreciation of Richard Lynn’s contributions to science.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.012
• Rushton J.P. & Jensen A. (2005) “Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability.” Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 11(2), 235–294.
• Rushton J.P. & Jensen A. (2008) “La très dérangeante vérité de James Watson : réalisme racial et illusion moraliste.” Medical Hypotheses 71, 629–640.
• Rushton J.P. & Osborne R.T. (1995) “Genetic and environmental contributions to cranial capacity in black and white adolescents.” Intelligence 20, 1-13.
• Rushton J.P. & Templer D.I. (2011) “IQ, skin color, crime, HIV/AIDS, and income in 50 U.S. states.” Intelligence 39, 437–442.
• Savage J.E et al. (2018) “Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence.” Nature Genetics.
• Sorjonen K., Farioli A., Hemmingsson T., Melin B. (2017) “Refractive state, intelligence, education, and Lord’s paradox.” Intelligence 61, 115–119.
• Strand J.K. (1982) “Relationship between empathy, IQ and perspective-taking in young children.” B.S.A Thesis in home and family life.
• Sznitman S.R. et al. (2011) “The Neglected Role of Adolescent Emotional Wellbeing in National Educational Achievement: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Mental Health Policies.” Journal of Adolescent Health 48, 135–142.
• Templer D.I. (2008) “Correlational and factor analytic support for Rushton’s differential K life history theory.” Personality and Individual Differences 45, 440–444.
• Templer D.I. (2011) “Richard Lynn and the evolution of conscientiousness.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.05.023
• Te Nijenhuis J. et al. (2011) “The Flynn effect in Korea: Large gains.” Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.06.006
• Lee J.J. et al. (2018) “Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals.” Nature Genetics 50, 1112–1121.
• Hill W.D. et al. (2019) “A combined analysis of genetically correlated traits identifies 187 loci and a role for neurogenesis and myelination in intelligence.” Nature Communications 10, 3364.
• Rietveld C.A. et al. (2013) “GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment.” Science, 340(6139), 1467-1471.
• Okbay A. et al. (2016) “Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment.” Nature, 533, 539–542.
• Davies G. et al. (2018) “Study of 300,486 individuals identifies 148 independent genetic loci influencing general cognitive function.” Nature Genetics 50, 960–968.
• Plomin R. et al. (2016) “Genome-wide polygenic scores for intelligence: Prediction of cognitive abilities and educational achievement.” Molecular Psychiatry 21, 1385–1391.
• Davies G. et al. (2016) “Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (N=112,151).” Molecular Psychiatry 21, 758–767.
• Piffer D. (2015) “A review of intelligence GWAS hits: Patterns and predictions.” Intelligence 53, 43–51.
• Piffer D. (2019) “Evidence for recent polygenic selection on educational attainment and intelligence inferred from GWAS hits.” bioRxiv preprint.
• Plomin R. et al. (2018) “Genomic analysis of family data reveals additional genetic effects on intelligence and educational achievement.” Molecular Psychiatry 23, 2347–2362.
• Harden K.P. et al. (2020) “Genetic associations with mathematics tracking and persistence in secondary school.” Nature Human Behaviour 4, 999–1007.

5. To Read First

• Savage et al. (2018) – GWAS intelligence meta-analysis (Nature Genetics)
• Hill et al. (2019) – 187 loci for intelligence (Nature Communications)
• Davies et al. (2018) – 148 loci for cognitive function (Nature Genetics)
• Davies et al. (2016) – GWAS of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (N=112,151)
• Plomin et al. (2018) – Genomic analysis of family data
• Harden et al. (2020) – Genetics and mathematics tracking
• Okbay et al. (2016) – GWAS: 74 loci for educational attainment
• Lee et al. (2018) – Educational attainment, 1.1 million individuals
• Piffer (2015) – Review of intelligence GWAS hits
• Piffer (2019) – Recent polygenic selection on intelligence