| Study and Review Hint for question 12 Review Section 8.7, The Bell-Curve Fallacy and Other Misinterpretations of Heritability. Note that the "argument from incredulity" (the rhetorical device in which an author invites us to imagine some hypothesis and dismisses it as unlikely without rigorous testing) is a common tool used by creationists to discount various elements of evolutionary biology. It's well worth learning to spot it, and to remember that plausibility is no substitute for rigorous testing. |