The ''Journal of Biosocial Science'' is a bimonthly

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covering the intersection of

biology Biology is the scientific study of life and living organisms. It is a broad natural science that encompasses a wide range of fields and unifying principles that explain the structure, function, growth, History of life, origin, evolution, and ...

and

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

. It was the continuation of ''The Eugenics Review'', published by the

Galton Institute The Adelphi Genetics Forum is a non-profit learned society based in the United Kingdom. Its aims are "to promote the public understanding of human heredity and to facilitate informed debate about the ethical issues raised by advances in reproducti ...

from 1909 till 1968. It obtained its current name in 1969, with volume numbering re-starting at 1, and switched publishers to

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. The

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is Dr Alejandra Núñez-de la Mora (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 2.148.

Notable studies

In 2006, the journal published a controversial study arguing that

Ashkenazi Jew Ashkenazi Jews ( ; also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim) form a distinct subgroup of the Jewish diaspora, that Ethnogenesis, emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium Common era, CE. They traditionally spe ...

s are more intelligent than other ethnic groups as a result of human evolution.

Past editors

Alan Sterling Parkes Sir Alan Sterling Parkes, FRS, CBE (10 September 1900 – 17 July 1990) was an English reproductive biologist credited with Christopher Polge and Audrey Smith for the discovery that spermatozoa can be protected against induced damage induc ...

(1969–1978) * Derek F. Roberts (1979–1988) * C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor (1989–2021)

References

External links

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