1. Books
2. Scientific Journals
3. Websites
4. Studies
5. To Read First
1. Books (In Alphabetical Order of Authors)
Rating (out of a maximum of 5):
Baker, John R. Race (3rd edition). Oxford University Press, 2012. Excellent book by a professor of biology at Oxford 
Battaglioli M.S. (2016) ‘The consequences of equality’
Cavali-Sforza L. (1994) ‘The History and Geography of Human Genes’. Not very interesting
Cavali-Sforza L. (2000) ‘Genes, People and Language’
Cochran, G. and Harpending, H. (2009). The 10000 Year Explosion’
Dutton E. (2014) ‘Religion and Intelligence, an Evolutionary Analysis’ Ulster institute for social research
Entine J. (2000) ‘Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About it’
Eysenck H.J. (1956) ‘Uses and Abuses of Psychology’
Eysenck H.J. (1971) ‘The IQ Argument. Race, Intelligence, and Education. Interesting, but a little outdated
Eysenck H.J. (1973) ‘The Inequality of Man’
Eysenck H.J. (1995) ‘Genius: The General History of Creativity’
Eysenck H.J. and Eysenck M. (1981) ‘The Naked Mind: How the Mind Works and Why’
Flynn J. (2009) ‘What is Intelligence ?’ Evil work, without interest
Galton F. (1882) ‘Hereditary Genius, An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences’ . A Seminal work of Francis Galton
Haier R.J. (2017) ‘The Neuroscience of Intelligence’, Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology
Haier, R.J., Colom, R., & Earl, H. (2023). The Science of Human Intelligence. Bad quality pictures. Some subjects avoided
Hart M.H. (2008) ‘Understanding Human History’ . Available for free in full
Harvey J. (2011) ‘Race and Equality. The Nature of the Debate’
Hernstein R. J. and Murray C. (1994) ‘The Bell Curve, Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life’, American best-seller, available for free. Hernstein was then a professor of sociology at Harvard.
Jensen A.R. (1998) ‘The g Factor: the Science of Mental Ability’ Excellent book, complete on mental skills.
Jensen A.R. (2006) ‘Clocking the Mind: Mental Chronometry and Individual Differences’ is an Excellent book that unfortunately does not address racial differences.
Jensen A.R., Langan C. and LoSasso ‘Discussion on Genius and Intelligence. Mega Fundation Interview with Arthur Jensen. Free access.
Larivée S. et al. (2009) ‘Le quotient intellectuel, ses déterminants et son avenir’
Levin M. (1997) ‘Why Race Matters?’
Lynch, G., and Granger, R. (2008). ‘Big Brain. The Origin and Future of Human Intelligence: Not very interesting.
Lynn R. (1996) ‘Dysgenics. Genetic Deterioration in Modern Population’ Outstanding work.
Lynn R. (2001) ‘Eugenics, a Reassessment’ L’acheter
Lynn R. (2001) ‘The Science of Human Diversity: a History of the Pioneer Fund’
Lynn R. (2006) and 2nd edition 2015 ‘Race Differences in Intelligence’. A masterfully written book. Richard Lynn is the Darwin of our time. Free access.
Lynn R. (2008) ‘The Global Bell Curve’ 
Lynn R. (2011) ‘The Chosen People. A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement’
Lynn R. and Vanhanen T. (2002) ‘IQ and the Wealth of Nations’
Lynn R. and Vanhanen T. (2006). ‘IQ and Global Inequality’ is a Continuation of ‘IQ and Global Inequality’ that is better because it is more in-depth, more accessible, and cheaper.
Lynn R. and Vanhanen T. (2012) ‘Intelligence: an Unifying Construct for the Social Science’
Lynn R. and Dutton E. (2015) ‘Race and Sport. Evolution and Racial Differences in Sporting Abilities: A must for anyone interested in the links between race and sports.
Mackintosh N.J. (1998) ‘IQ and Human Intelligence’
Meisenberg G. (2007) ‘In God’s Image. The Natural History of Intelligence and Ethics’
Miele F. Intelligence, Race, and Genetics. Conversation with Artur R. Jensen’
Miele F. and Sarich V. Race. The Reality of Human Differences : Lack of structure, lack of schemas. Too historical. Disappointing. Moderately interesting.
Miller A.S. and Kanazawa S. (2008) ‘Why Beautiful People have More Daughters’ Fascinating odyssey of evolutionary psychology in questions and answers.
Miller, James D. (2012). ‘Singularity Rising. Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer and more Dangerous World. Exciting book on new biotechnology perspectives, smart drugs …
Muray C. (2004) ‘Human Accomplishment, the Pursuit of Excellence in Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C to 1950’
Muray C. (2020) ‘Human Diversity. The biology of gender, sex, and class’
New century fundations (2016) ‘The Color of Crime. Race, Crime, and Justice in America: Revised Edition.
Nyborg H. and al. (1997) ‘The Scientific Study of Human Nature. Tribute to Hans J. Eysenck at eighty’
Nyborg H. and al. (2003) ‘The Scientific Study of General Intelligence. Tribute to Arthur R. Jensen’
Nyborg H. et al. (2014) ‘Race and Sex Differences in Intelligence and Personality. A Tribute to Richard Lynn at Eighty’
Obertone L. (2018) ‘La France interdite, la vérité sur l’immigration’ Obertone discusses the IQ decrease in Europe as a consequence of immigration. Very brave.
Oleson J.C.(2016) ‘Criminal Genius: a Portrait of High-IQ Offenders’
Plomin (2018). Blueprint, How DNA Makes Us Who We Are’
Plomin, de Fried, McClearn, Rutter (1999). Behavior Genetics, 2nd edition’
Rindermann H. (2018) ‘Cognitive Capitalism, Human Capital and the Wellbeing of Nations’
Roth B.M. (2010) ‘The Perils of Diversity. Immigration and Human Nature’
Ritchie S. (2016) ‘Intelligence, All that Matters’ A small introduction to the intelligence field, unpretentious.
Rushton J.P. (2000) ‘Race, Evolution and Behavior’
Taylor J. and McDaniel G. (2002) ‘A Race against Time’
Vanhanen T. (2009) ‘The Limits of Democratisation’
Wade N. (2014) ‘A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History’ Misses a few graphics.
Warne Russel T. (2020) “In the Know: Debunking 35 Myths about Human Intelligence” Cambridge University Press. Excellente synthèse sur l’intelligence humaine.
2. Scientific Journals
Journal of social, political, and economic studies
Personality and individual differences
3. Websites
http://www.thepioneerfund.org/ Pioneer Fund Website
http://www.rlynn.co.uk/ Le site officiel de Richard Lynn
http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com/ Different interesting questions
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. and all. (2011) « Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic » Nature, Molecular Psychiatry. Dear I.J. and all. “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, Volume 6, Issue 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, vol. 28, pp. 51−71. Jung R.E. et Haier R.J. (2007) “The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence: Converging neuroimaging evidence” Cambridge University Press. Kagitcibasi C. et 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, Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages 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. et Longley D. (2006) « On the high intelligence and cognitive achievements of Jews in Britain » Intelligence 34, 541–547. Lynn R. et Harvey J. (2008) « The decline of the world’s IQ » Intelligence 36 (2008) 112–120. Lynn R. et 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. et Mikk J. (2009) « National IQs predict educational attainment in math, reading and science across 56 nations » Intelligence 37, 305–310. Lynn R. et Meisenberg G. (2010) « National IQs calculated and validated for 108 nations » Intelligence 38 (2010) 353–360. Lynn R. et 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. et 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. et 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 (2015) 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. et 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. (March 2018, The New York Times) «How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of Race»
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, Vol. 19 n°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. et Jensen A. (2005) « Thirty years of research on race differences in cognitive ability » Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, Vol. 11, No. 2, 235–294 Rushton J.P. et Jensen A. (2008) « La très dérangeante vérité de James Watson : réalisme racial et illusion moraliste » Medical Hypotheses 71, 629–640 Rushton J.P. et Osborne R.T. (1995) « Genetic and environmental contributions to cranial capacity in black and white adolescents » Intelligence 20, 1-13. Rushton J.P. et 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 » Sorjonen K., Farioli A., Hemmingsson T., Melin B. “Refractive state, intelligence, education, and Lord’s paradox” Intelligence Volume 61, March–April 2017, Pages 115–119.
Strand J.K. (1982) « Relationship between empathy, IQ end 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.2011.03.022 Thompson J. (2011) Richard Lynn’s contributions to personality and intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.013 Tsukahara J.S et al. (2016) “The relationship between baseline pupil size and intelligence”, Cognitive Psychology 91, 109–123. Van Der Linden D., Curtis S.D. et Madison G. (2017) “Sex differences in brain size and general intelligence (g)”, Intelligence. Vinogradov E. et al. (2010) « Home country national intelligence and self-employment rates among immigrants in Norway » Intelligence 38, 151–159. Wade N. (2005). Researchers Say Intelligence and Diseases May Be Linked in Ashkenazi Genes—the New York Times. Wirthwein L. et Rost D.H. (2011) « Focussing on overexcitabilities: Studies with intellectually gifted and academically talented adults » Personality and Individual Differences 51, 337–342. Woodley M.A. (2011) « A life history model of the Lynn–Flynn effect » Personality and Individual Differences doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.03.028
5. To Read First
Davies G. et al. (2011) Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic. Nature, Molecular Psychiatry. Lynn R. (2006 et deuxième éd. 2015) Race differences in intelligence
Lynn R. et Vanhanen T. (2006) IQ and Global inequality
Lynn R. et 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
Piffer D. (2015) A review of intelligence GWAS hits: Their relationship to country IQ and the issue of spatial autocorrelation. Intelligence 53 (2015) 43–50
Plomin (2018) Blueprint, how DNA makes us who we are 
Plomin R. et al. (2018) The new genetics of intelligence Nature.
Reich D. (March 2018, The New York Times) How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of Race
Rushton J.P. (2000) Race, evolution and behavior
Rushton J.P. et Jensen A. (2008) James Watson’s most inconvenient truth: Race realism and the moralistic fallacy.
Savage J.E et all (2018) « Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence »