TY - JOUR
AU - Salmon, Catherine
AB - Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences © 2019 American Psychological Association 2020, Vol. 14, No. 2, 210 –212 2330-2925/20/$12.00 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ebs0000159 BOOK REVIEW At Our Wits’ End: Why We’re Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means for the Future by E. Dutton and M. A. Woodley of Menie, Exeter, United Kingdom: Imprint Academic, 2018, 180pp. £14.95 (paperback) Reviewed by Julien Delhez Georg-August-Universität Göttingen This is not the first book on the decline of intelligence in Western industrialized countries (e.g., see Lynn, 2011), but it seems to be the first one to be written for a wide audience. It results from a collaboration between Edward Dutton (University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland), author of several books related to the study of human intelligence (e.g., Dutton, 2014; Dutton & Charlton, 2016), and Michael Anthony Woodley of Menie, who may be best known for his work on the evolution of intelligence, both in the last millennia (Woodley & Figueredo, 2013) and as far back as the Bronze Age (Woodley, Younuskunju, Balan, & Piffer, 2017). Aside from the first introductory chapter, this book can be divided into four parts. Chapters 2 through 6 explain the elements and basic concepts of, as well as some of the most common 
TI - Review of At Our Wits End: Why Were Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means for the Future
JF - Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
DO - 10.1037/ebs0000159
DA - 2020-04-21
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/review-of-at-our-wits-end-why-were-becoming-less-intelligent-and-what-cFf35o1dbo
SP - 210
EP - 212
VL - 14
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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