NMLP P-029587 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Mismeasure of Man

Stephen Jay Gould · W. W. Norton & Company · 1981

The US Norton edition is the true first and precedes the UK issue. The 1996 'Revised and Expanded' edition, which adds responses to The Bell Curve, is a distinct first thus and should not be confused with the 1981 first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-029587 for "The Mismeasure of Man" by Stephen Jay Gould (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-029587, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).