Richard Lynn Emeritus Professor of Psychology of the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. He graduated in Psychology at the University of Cambridge and has held positions at the University of Exeter and the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin. Among his earlier books are Dysgenics: Genetic Deterioration in Modern Populations (1996) and Eugenics: A Reassessment (2001), IQ and the Wealth of Nations (Co-author, 2002), and Race Differences in Intelligence (2006).
Tatu Vanhanen Emeritus Professor of Political Science of the University of Tempere, Finland, and Emeritus Docent of Political Science of the University of Helsinki. He became Doctor of Social Sciences at the University of Tampere in 1968 and has held positions at the University of Jyväskylä , at the University of Tampere and the University of Helsinki. Among his earlier books are The Process of Democratization: A Comparative Study of 147 States, 1980-88 (1990), On the Evolutionary Roots of Politics (1992), Prospects of Democracy: A study of 172 Countries (1997), Ethnic Conflicts Explained by Ethnic Nepotism (1999) and IQ and the Wealth of Nations (Co-author, 2002).
Richard Lynn (born 1930) is a British Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster [1][2] who is known for his views on racial and ethnic differences.[3] Lynn argues that there are hereditary differences in intelligence based on race and sex.
Lynn was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Cambridge University in England. He has worked as lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter, and as professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and at the University of Ulster at Coleraine. He has written or co-written more than 11 books and 200 journal articles spanning five decades. Two of his recent books are on dysgenics and eugenics.
Tatu Vanhanen is Emeritus Professor of Political Science of the University of Tampere, Finland, and a visiting researcher at the department of Political Science, University of Helsinki.
He studied at the University of Tampere and became Doctor of Social Sciences in 1968. Before his academic career he worked in the 1960s as the chief of information and research department of the Agrarian/Center Party, Helsinki. He has held positions at the University of Jyväskylän (1969-72), the Academy on Finland (1972-74), and the University of Tampere (Associated Professor of Political Science) in 1974-92.
His main works have been on the comparative study of democratization, on ethnic conflict and violence, and on the application of evolutionary ideas to the study of politics and human conditions. His latest books include Prospects of Democracy: A study of 172 countries (1997), Ethnic Conflicts Explained by Ethnic Nepotism (1999), (jointly with Yrjö Agmavaara) Geenien tulo yhteiskuntatieteisiin (the coming of genes to social sciences) (2001), (jointly with Richard Lynn) IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2002), Democratization: A comparative analysis of 170 countries (2003), (jointly with Richard Lynn) IQ and Global Inequality (2006), and Globaalit ongelmat (global problems) (2008).
