Charles C. Roseman

Dec 19, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Charles C. Roseman |Kevin A Bird

AbstractHereditarianism is a school of thought that contends there are substantial evolved cognitive and behavioral differences among groups of humans which are both resistant to environmental intervention and are a root cause of differential social outcomes across groups. The relationship of between- group heritability (h2B) to within-group heritability (h2W) is one of the key theoretical components of hereditarianism and forms one of the bases for its claim to be an evolutionary science.

Oct 24, 2023 | scientificamerican.com | Charles C. Roseman |Cara Ocobock

Sex is one of the major cultural and political fault lines of our time. Legislation aimed at regulating who may participate in different arenas of society, including girls’ and women’s sports, is being passed with some regularity. These legislative efforts tend not only to conflate sex and gender but also to jumble up biological traits such as hormone levels with behavioral/performance features such as sprint speed or jump height.

Aug 14, 2023 | jacobin.com | Charles C. Roseman

Almost three decades ago, the psychologist Richard Herrnstein and the political scientist Charles Murray published The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Its release was a watershed moment in the popular reception of science, in part because it purported to solve, once and for all, the seemingly intractable problem of whether nature or nurture were decisive in determining people’s life outcomes.