But can anyone truly believe that the only reason 88 percent of the people arrested for murder are men is because society steers them that way? Or that women almost never pay for sex but men do - only because someone said they should?Īlthough there is obviously a lot of overlap in most traits, average males and females are different from birth, well before the “patriarchy” gets its hands on them. It might - just might - be possible to convince yourself that only 4 percent of US patents are granted to women because society steers them away from science.
Murray, “everywhere and throughout history, that certain differences between the sexes have been so consistent? Isn’t it simpler to assume that we’re looking at innate differences produced by millions of years of evolution?”
Plenty of people at least claim to believe that sex differences are artificially imposed by some nefarious group that wants women to behave one way and men another. In what must be one of the most colossal errors in intellectual history, it is now fashionable to think that there is no such thing as a typically male or female nature. It is necessary only because universities and big media continue to assert that the sexes and races are identical from the neck up, and that the only reason some people do well in life is because they are undeserving darlings of the “white hetero-normative patriarchy.” Orthodoxy is firmly entrenched, and it will take more than a single book to dislodge it, but none is likely to strike a more powerful blow than Human Diversity. The pity is that this book should not have had to be written. It is hard to imagine a better introduction to, as the book’s subtitle baldly puts it, the biology of gender, race, and class. Murray has a gift for explaining science.
This is his most scientifically ambitious book - much of the material comes from genetics research that uses complex, cutting-edge analysis - but Dr. Murray bases his conclusions on an exhaustive survey of the relevant literature. (3) Increasingly, the people who are rich and influential got that way because they have biologically rooted talents and abilities, not because of unfair privilege.Īs he always does, Dr. (2) Human populations have evolved so many genetic differences that different groups cannot be expected to think and behave identically. In Human Diversity, Charles Murray sets out to demonstrate three things: (1) There are biological reasons why men and women behave differently. Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, Grand Central Publishing, 2020, 528 pp., $31.50.
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