Entries by F. Roger Devlin, Ph.D.

Recent Research on Race Realism

Race and Evolution: The Causes and Consequences of Race Differences Stephen K. Sanderson Self-published, 2022 Stephen Sanderson is the author, coauthor, or editor of sixteen books in twenty-two editions and some seventy-five articles in journals, edited collections, and handbooks. He is a retired professor of sociology and is quite unusual within his discipline for applying […]

Premature Birth and Genius

Sent Before Their Time: Genius, Charisma, and Being Born Prematurely Edward Dutton Australia: Manticore Press, 2022 328 pages, $24.95 softbound Ed Dutton’s latest book marks a return to the theme of genius, which he previously explored in The Genius Famine (with Bruce Charleton, 2016) and At Our Wit’s End (with Michael Woodley of Menie, 2018). […]

Richard Lynn Recounts His Life, Part 3 of 3

Editor’s note: I have added the MP3 versions of all three parts of the review derived from Google’s advanced text-to-speech algorithm. I thought that it came through quite well. Comments appreciated.  Written version, Part 1; MP3 version: Written version, Part 2. MP3 version: MP3 version of Part 3: Lynn’s account of his years in Ulster […]

Richard Lynn Recounts His Life

Memoirs of a Dissident Psychologist Richard Lynn London: Ulster Institute for Social Research, 2020 476 pages, £25 Richard Lynn, who turned 90 earlier this year, has published an account of his life and intellectual development, including portraits of some of the outstanding men he has known and worked with. Lynn’s father was Sydney Harland, the […]

Beating Us With Our Own Weapons

Editor’s note: This review appeared in The Occidental Quarterly in the Fall issue of 2013. This is the only online version at this time, and it seemed particularly appropriate to post it now because of China’s role in disseminating the Wuhan virus, as well as their cover-ups and lies about it. Given my interest in individualism, the […]

Recent Advances in the Study of Human Differences: Implications of the Genomic Revolution

Editor’s note: This is the final installment of Devlin’s review of Murray’s Human Diversity. Human Diversity concludes with a consideration of the genomic revolution currently unfolding. Older Americans learned about genetics in Mendelian terms where each gene coded for some trait which was normally either dominant or recessive. The genome as a whole was thought of […]