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The first edition of The Mismeasure of Man won the non-fiction award from the National Book Critics Circle ; the Outstanding Book Award for 1983 from the American Educational Research Association ; the Italian translation was awarded the Iglesias prize in 1991 ; and in 1998, the Modern Library ranked it as the 24th-best non-fiction book of all time.

In December 2006, Discover magazine ranked The Mismeasure of Man as the 17th-greatest science book of all time.