The Mankind Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to physical anthropology and cultural anthropology and associated with the Pioneer Fund. It contains articles on human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, languages, mythology, archaeology, race, etc. It is published by Scott-Townsend Publishers [1] and was founded in 1960, aiming to reunify biology with anthropology. Peer review (known as refereeing in some academic fields) is a scholarly process used in the publication of manuscripts and in the awarding of funding for research. ... Physical anthropology, often called biological anthropology, studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. ... Cultural anthropology, also called social anthropology or socio-cultural anthropology, forms one of four commonly-recognized fields of anthropology, the holistic study of humanity. ... The Pioneer Fund is a foundation that has played a significant role in research on heredity and human personality differences since its 1937 founding, particularly in intelligence. ... Human evolution is the part of the theory of evolution by which human beings emerged as a distinct species. ... Intelligence is the mental capacity to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend ideas and language, and learn. ... Ethnography (from the Greek ethnos = nation and graphein = writing) refers to the qualitative description of human social phenomena, based on fieldwork. ... The word mythology (Greek: μυθολογία, from μυθος mythos, a story or legend, and λογος logos, an account or speech) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use supernatural events or characters to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. ... Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... For other uses, see Race (disambiguation). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Biology is the branch of science dealing with the study of life. ...

Many of those who constitute the publication's contributors, Board of Directors and publishers are connected to the academic hereditarian tradition. This journal has been criticized by some as being political. Among its founders are: Gayle, Pearson, Henry Garrett, Corado Gini and Ottmar von Verschuer. Among its editors has been Roger Pearson who is known for establishing the neo-Nazi Northern League in 1958. Among its different article-contributors have been controversial academics known for their work in race and intelligence. Hereditarianism is the doctrine or school of thought that heredity is at least as important as environment in determining human nature and character traits, such as intelligence and personality. ... Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British eugenics advocate and editor of several scholarly journals published by the Institute for the Study of Man. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... The Northern League is a neo-Nazi organization most active in Britain in the latter half of the 20th century. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Normal distribution showing results of studies comparing races and ethnic groups with IQ among U.S. test subjects show differences in average test scores, though the distributions overlap, as seen in this graph based on Reynolds et al. ...

Amongst the contributors are: Alain de Benoist, Chris Brand, Raymond Cattell, Brunetto Chiarelli, Darl Dumont, Hans Eysenck, Marija Gimbutas, Robert Klark Graham, Ronald Immerman, Seymour Itzkoff, J.W. Jamieson, Subhash Kak, Kenneth Lamb, Richard Lynn, J.P. Mallory, Herbert Matare, R. A. McConnell, Gerhard Meisenberg, Edward M. Miller, Matthew Nuenke, R. T. Osborne, Edgar Polome, Stanley Porteus, J. Philippe Rushton, Jared Taylor, Del Thiessen, Tatu Vanhanen, Volkmar Weiss and Glayde Whitney. Alain de Benoist (born 11 December 1943) is a French academic and head of the French think-tank Nouvelle Droite (English: New Right). ... Christopher Richard Brand (born 1 June 1943) is a British author and psychology researcher who is famous for his controversial views on race and intelligence. ... Raymond Bernard Cattell (20 March 1905 - 2 February 1998) was a British and American psychologist who theorized the existence of fluid and crystallized intelligences to explain human cognitive ability. ... Hans Eysenck Hans Jürgen Eysenck (March 4, 1916 - September 4, 1997) was an eminent psychologist, most remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas. ... Marija Gimbutas by Kerbstone 52, at the back of Newgrange, Co. ... Robert Klark Graham (1907-1997) American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatter-proof plastic eyeglass lenses, and who later founded the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for geniuses in the hope of implementing a eugenics program. ... Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British eugenics advocate and editor of several scholarly journals published by the Institute for the Study of Man. ... Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947, Srinagar, Kashmir) is Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Professor in the Asian Studies and Cognitive Science Programs at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. ... Richard Lynn Richard Lynn (born 1930) is a British emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Ulster, known for his work on intelligence and differential psychology. ... JP Mallory is the nom-de-plume of Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist Prof. ... R.A. McConnell is an American parapsychologist. ... Stanley David Porteus (April 24, 1883 - October 21, 1972) was a psychologist, academic and author. ... John Philippe Rushton John Philippe (Phil) Rushton Ph. ... Samuel Jared Taylor (b. ... Delbert Thiessen is an American psychology professor emeritus whose research focused on evolutionary mechanisms of reproduction and social communication. ... Tatu Vanhanen is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland. ... Glayde Whitney Glayde D. Whitney (1939—8 January 2002) was a behavioral geneticist and psychology professor at Florida State University. ...

Its current editors are: J. Gladykowska-Rzeczycka, J. Balslev Jorgensen, J.J. Helen Kaarma, David de Laubenfels, T.L. Markey, Umberto Melotti, H.F. Mataré, Clyde E. Noble, Ralph Rowlett, Frederick Streng, Charles C. Susanne, and Volkmar Weiss.

According to defenders, Mankind Quarterly has never been afraid to publish articles in taboo areas, including behavioral group differences and the importance of mental ability for individual outcomes and group differences. During the "Bell Curve wars" of the 1990s, it received attention when opponents of The Bell Curve publicized the fact that many of the works cited by Bell Curve authors Herrnstein and Murray had first been published in Mankind Quarterly. The graph of the probability density function of the normal distribution is sometimes called the bell curve or the bell-shaped curve; see normal distribution. ... Richard Herrnstein (1930-1994) was a prominent researcher in comparative psychology who did pioneering work on pigeon intelligence employing the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. ... Charles Murray is the name of several notable people: Charles Murray, the Libertarian and author of The Bell Curve. ...

Its sister journal is Roger Pearson's Journal of Indo-European Studies, which also receives major funding from the Pioneer Fund. Roger Pearson (born 1927) is a British eugenics advocate and editor of several scholarly journals published by the Institute for the Study of Man. ...

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