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division of labor in,
129

egalitarianism in,
63
,
128
,
129

and formation of civilizations,
133

initiation rites in,
130

institutions of,
128

kinship in,
44
,
130

punishment in,
49

religion in,
130
–31

time preferences in,
158

transition to settled life from,
10
–11,
50
,
58
,
62
–63,
82
,
85
,
110
,
127
–32,
149
,
167
,
226

violence in,
156

hunting,
62

Huntington, Samuel,
183

ice ages,
77
,
91
,
93

Pleistocene,
76
,
81
,
83

Iceland,
13
,
94

immigrants, immigration,
28
,
38
,
188

Chinese,
186
–87,
188
,
201
,
213
,
237

eugenicists and,
31

German,
187
–88

Japanese,
185
–86,
188

Immigration Act,
31
,
33

Incas,
134
,
226

incest,
237
,
250
–51

India,
134
,
147
,
227
,
233
,
246

Brahmanism in,
141

state achieved in,
137
,
141
–42

telescope introduced to,
215
–17

Indian subcontinent,
4
,
86
,
96

transition to modern economy in,
178

Indonesia,
18
,
187

Indo-Europeans (Aryans),
19
–20

Industrial Revolution,
12
,
149
,
151
–52,
154
,
158
–59,
161
–63,
172
,
178
–79,
185
,
188
,
193
,
203
,
222
–24,
244

influenza,
116

Inquisition,
216

institutional drift,
196

institutions,
see
social institutions

intelligence,
7
–8,
111
–12,
204
,
214
,
222
–23

alleles and,
190

brain size and,
21

in Jewish populations,
199
,
201
–5,
207
–14

tests of,
see
IQ tests

intentionality, shared,
48
,
49

interbreeding,
17
,
19
,
23
,
71
,
75
,
78
,
84
,
116

interest rates,
157
,
158

IQ and Global Inequality
(Lynn and Vanhanen),
191

IQ and the Wealth of Nations
(Lynn and Vanhanen),
191

IQ tests,
8
,
191
,
214
,
223

Ashkenazi Jews and,
202
,
214

Chinese and,
166

debate between hereditarians and environmentalists on,
189
–91

eugenicists and,
30

wealth and,
189
–93

Iraq,
14
,
148
,
212
,
213
,
241

Isaac, Benjamin,
17
–18

Islam,
229
,
230

Islamic world,
12
,
219
,
228
,
234
,
244
,
246

military slavery in,
142
–44

science in,
228
–32

state achieved in,
137

Jahangir,
216

James II, King,
146
,
194

Janissaries,
143
,
144

Japan,
13
,
88
,
90
,
172
,
193
,
196
,
220
,
236
–37,
246
,
248

transition to modern economy in,
178
–79

Japanese,
4
,
91
,
166

immigrants,
185
–86,
188

Jennings, Herbert S.,
29

Jensen, Arthur,
190

Jesuits,
217
,
218

Jews,
94
,
187
,
197
,
198
–214,
244
,
249

achievements of,
198
–99,
202
,
214

Ashkenazi,
199
–209,
214

Christian conversion among,
211

discrimination against,
36
–37,
198
,
213

expulsions and massacres of,
201
,
204
–5,
210

Gobineau’s views on,
19
–20

Hitler and,
19
–20

Holocaust and,
31
,
36
–37,
69
,
198

intelligence of,
199
,
201
–5,
207
–14

literacy and,
202
,
210
–12

marriage and,
199
–200,
204
,
205

Mendelian diseases and,
202
,
205
–8,
209

moneylending and,
202
–5,
210
,
212
,
213

occupations of,
212
,
213

Oriental (Mizrahi),
200
–201,
204
,
209

population of,
211
,
213

reproductive success of,
203

Sephardi,
200
–201,
204
,
206
,
209

standards of living of,
203

Talmud and,
205
,
211
,
212

Torah and,
210
–11

trade and,
212
,
213
,
214

Jones, Eric,
225

Jordan, Winthrop,
72

Joshua ben Gamla,
210

Journal of Biosocial Science,
202

Judaism,
210
–11

Kamehameha, King,
134

Kant, Immanuel,
37

Kapital, Das
(Marx),
24

Kaplan, Hillard,
63

Kepler, Johannes,
216
,
217

Kevles, Daniel,
29
,
30

Khoisan,
101

Kim family,
189

kinship,
136
,
143
,
178

chimpanzees and,
43
–44

in hunter-gatherer societies,
44
,
130

KITLG gene,
111

kleptocracy,
175

Konner, Melvin,
205

Korea, Koreans,
4
,
90
,
166
,
179
–80,
193
,
246

Korean War,
220

Kuran, Timur,
230

lactase gene,
60
–61,
113

lactose tolerance,
60
–61

Landes, David,
235
–36

language(s),
40
,
83
–84,
92
,
98

cultural component of,
125

genetics and,
101

grammar in,
125

Indo-European,
84

Khoisan,
101

in New Guinea,
83
,
84

in United States,
83

Laos,
187

Last Glacial Maximum,
81

law,
58
,
124
–25,
144
–45,
146
,
194
,
224
,
232
,
237
,
247

canon,
146

Justinian code,
146

Lazarus, Emma,
32

Lebanon,
182

Lewontin, Richard,
118
–20

Lewontin’s fallacy,
120

Li, Jun Z.,
99

lice,
22
–23,
108
–9

Lippershey, Hans,
215
–16

L’Isle-aux-Coudres,
3

literacy,
156
–57,
160
,
175
,
180
,
229
,
236
,
244

Jews and,
202
,
210
–12

Little, Clarence,
29

Livingstone, Frank,
98

Lynn, Richard,
191
–93

Lysenko, Trofim,
160

madrasas,
229

malaria,
110
–11,
116
,
117
–18,
206

Malaya,
18

Malaysia,
186

Malthus, Thomas,
11
,
159
,
161
,
163
–65,
172
,
178
,
181
,
197
,
245

Darwin and,
155

An Essay on the Principle of Population,
152
,
153
–54,
155
,
162

Malthusian trap,
149
,
152
,
153
–54,
162
,
179
,
203
,
222

Mamluks,
143
–44

Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
(Montagu),
69
,
119

MAO-A gene,
54
–57,
110
,
170
–71,
243
,
244

Mao Tse-tung,
135
,
145
,
189

marriage,
145
,
154
,
162
–63

incest and,
237

intermarriage,
17
,
19
,
23
,
71
,
75
,
78
,
84
,
92
,
116
,
199

Jews and,
199
–200,
204
,
205

local,
80

Marshall Plan,
183

marshmallow test,
157
–58

Marx, Karl,
24

Marxism,
27
,
59
,
201

mate guarding,
44
–45

MC1R gene,
87
–88

McNeill, William,
215

medicine,
221
,
224

Mein Kampf
(Hitler),
33

Mendel, Gregor,
28
,
29
,
34

Mendelian diseases,
202
,
205
–8,
209

menopause, age at first,
3

Mental Deficiency Act,
33

Meredith, Martin,
175
–76

Mesoamerica,
134

Meso-Industrial Age,
196
–97

Mesolithic Age,
197

Mesopotamia,
132
,
226

middle-class culture,
160
,
161
,
171
,
172

Middle East,
86
,
96
,
137
,
177
,
197
,
230

transition to modern economy in,
178

tribalism in,
173
,
174
–75,
177

migrations,
72
,
75
,
76
,
185
–86

military,
58
,
63
,
64
,
130
,
148
,
247

military power,
220
,
234

military slavery,
142
–44

milk consumption,
60
–61

mind as blank slate,
59
,
201
,
242

Mirazón Lahr, Marta,
167

Mischel, Walter,
157
–58

Mismeasure of Man, The
(Gould),
21

mitochondria,
74
,
79

Mizrahim (Oriental Jews),
200
–201,
204
,
209

Moche state,
134

moneylending,
202
–5,
210
,
212
,
213

Mongoloid skulls,
91

Mongols,
136
,
141
,
246
,
247

monkeys and apes,
39

chimpanzees,
see
chimpanzees

monogamy,
45

Montagu, Ashley,
69
,
70
,
119

moral dilemmas,
52

morality,
50
,
59
,
124

Morton, Samuel,
20
–22

mosaic zones,
83
,
84

mucolipidosis type IV,
206

Muhammad,
229

Muller, Jerry Z.,
213

Muslim world,
see
Islamic world

mutations,
72
,
73
,
75
,
78

Myers, Richard M.,
99

Napoleon I, Emperor,
234
,
247

Narmer,
134

national character,
150
–51

National Human Genome Research Institute,
68

National Institutes of Health,
103

Native Americans,
18
,
20
,
88
,
91
,
93
,
94

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