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. (2012) « Race » Troisième édition ». 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Interesting but a little outdated.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) « L’esprit nu »
Flynn J. (2009) « What is Intelligence ? » Very bad work, without interest.
Galton F. (1882) « Hereditary Genius, An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences »
Seminal work of Francis Galton.
Haier R.J. (2017) « The Neuroscience of Intelligence » Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology
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 Muray C. (1994) « The Bell Curve, Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life » American best-selling, available for free. Hernstein was then professor of sociology at Harvard.
Jensen A.R. (1998) « The g Factor: the Science of Mental Ability » Very good book, complete on mental skills.
Jensen A.R. (2006) « Clocking the Mind: Mental Chronometry and Individual Differences » Very good book, which 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, like all Lynn’s books.
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 « Races Differences in Intelligence » L
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 »
Continuation of « IQ and global inequality », better because 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-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. and 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, McCleran, 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 field of intelligence, unpretentious.
Rushton J.P. (2000) « Race, Evolution and Behavior » L’acheter
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.
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. and 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.
Deary 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. et 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 Deary J. (2014) « Genetics and intelligence differences: five special findings » Molecular psychiatry, open sur 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 Laland N. (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. (mars 2018, nytimes) «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 all (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 Well-Being 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 Kolvereid L. (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 Ashkenazic Genes » Nytimes.
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 all. (2011) « Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic » Nature, Molecular Psychiatry.
Lynn R. (2006 et deuxième éd. 2015) « Races differences in intelligence » L’acheter
Un livre écrit d’une main de maître. Richard Lynn est le Darwin de notre époque.
Lynn R. et Vanhanen T. (2006) « IQ and Global inequality » L’acheter
Suite de « IQ and global inequality », meilleur car plus approfondi, plus accessible et moins cher.
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. (mars 2018, nytimes) «How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of Race»
Rushton J.P. (2000) « Race, evolution and behavior » L’acheter
Savage J.E et all (2018) « Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence »