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Another debate followed the appearance of The Bell Curve ( 1994 ), a book by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, who argued in favor of the hereditarian viewpoint.

It provoked the publication of several interdisciplinary books representing the environmental point of view, as well as some in popular science.

They include The Bell Curve Debate ( 1995 ), Inequality by Design: Cracking the Bell Curve Myth ( 1996 ) and a second edition of The Mismeasure of Man ( 1996 ) by Steven J. Gould.

One book written from the hereditarian point of view at this time was The g Factor: The science of mental ability ( 1998 ) by Jensen.

In 1994 a group of 52 scientists, including leading hereditarians, signed the statement " Mainstream Science on Intelligence ".

The Bell Curve also led to a 1995 report from the American Psychological Association, " Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns ", acknowledging a gap between average IQ scores of whites and blacks as well as the absence of any adequate explanation of it, either environmental or genetic.