Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A bombshell in a letter box -- 2 Beyond the Flynn effect -- Intelligence and the atom -- Stating the paradoxes -- Swimming freely of g -- Where has all of the intelligence gone? -- Distant ancestors: Similarities -- Distant ancestors: Raven's -- Similarities and Raven's -- The heritability of basketball -- IQ gains and the real world -- Remembering numbers -- From solutions to new problems -- 3 Towards a new theory of intelligence -- Intelligence and celestial influence -- Three levels and three concepts -- Conceptual imperialism -- Closing a door to conceptual imperialism -- Cross-fertilization between levels -- How much has g contributed to our knowledge of the brain? -- Does g have competition? -- Some advice for IQ test organizations -- Prolegomena to the advancement of knowledge -- 4 Testing the Dickens/Flynn model -- Interventions and raising IQ -- How we can enhance our mental abilities -- Testable facets of the model -- Genes versus environment -- Transitory versus persistent -- Spillover effects of academics -- Spillover effects between age cohorts -- Factor loadings and age -- Testing everything -- 5 Why did it take so long? -- Tokyo and American history -- Norway and who was getting taller -- A personal confession -- Psychology and sociology -- 6 IQ gains can kill -- Obsolete norms -- Obsolete norms and Chinese Americans -- The class of 1966 -- Obsolete norms and American blacks -- Obsolete norms and interventions -- Classifying people as mentally retarded -- People at risk -- Special problems at low IQ levels -- John Doe and his twin -- Bring the tires to me -- 7 What if the gains are over? -- The SHAs and their enemies -- Moral debate -- Practical wisdom -- Towards WICA theory -- Measures of critical acumen.

Measures of wisdom -- Sic itur ad astra -- 8 Knowing our ancestors -- Appendix I: Tables -- Appendix II: Declaration in a capital case -- In a United States District Court unnamed -- Declaration of James Robert Flynn, Ph.D. -- References -- Subject Index -- Name Index.