| Summary: | The critique of ratial anthropology in Stephen Jay Gould
In this article I aim to draw a summary of Stephen Jay Gould’s critique of racial anthropology, part of the more general contestation of biological determinism and the ideological use of biology. It is highlighted how this theme has represented a constant commitment, both intellectual and civil, for the American paleontologist, with particolar reference to Ontogeny and phylogeny and to The Mismeasure of Man. Finally, it is briefly described the controversy surrounding Gould’s critique of Samuel G. Morton, which shows the long range of Gould’s work and the importance of the epistemological problem of the relationship between data and expectation.
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