A book that challenges common misconceptions about the nature of
intelligence
Satoshi Kanazawa's Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters (written
with Alan S. Miller) was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a
rollicking bit of pop science that turns the lens of evolutionary
psychology on issues of the day. That book answered such burning
questions as why women tend to lust after males who already have mates
and why newborns look more like Dad than Mom. Now Kanazawa tackles the
nature of intelligence: what it is, what it does, what it is good for
(if anything). Highly entertaining, smart (dare we say intelligent?),
and daringly contrarian, The Intelligence Paradox will provide a
deeper understanding of what intelligence is, and what it means for us
in our lives.
- Asks why more intelligent individuals are not better (and are, in
fact, often worse) than less intelligent individuals in solving some
of the most important problems in life--such as finding a mate,
raising children, and making friends
- Discusses why liberals are more intelligent than conservatives, why
atheists are more intelligent than the religious, why more intelligent
men value monogamy, why night owls are more intelligent than morning
larks, and why homosexuals are more intelligent than heterosexuals
- Explores how the purpose for which general intelligence
evolved--solving evolutionarily novel problems--allows us to explain
why intelligent people have the particular values and preferences they
have
Challenging common misconceptions about the nature of intelligence, this
book offers surprising insights into the cutting-edge of science at the
intersection of evolutionary psychology and intelligence research.
