On 15 March Stephen Black wrote 
> In my copy [of The Nurture Assumption], Harris lists 391 footnotes
> referencing her arguments,...

and Joan Warmbold responded
> I have the book by my side (doubt there exists more than one
> version) and can not find one, not one, footnote on any page 
> to provide the source for any of her assertions or conclusions. 
> Yes, there is a list of references at the end of the book (391---is that
> what you mean by footnotes?) but how can a reader determine how
> and when any of those references were used?  

On a purely factual matter, the number 391 at the end of the endnote
section (p. 418) is not the number of the endnote but the page number to
which the relevant note refers. There are actually around 700 endnotes.
(For some pages of the text there are more than one separate endnotes.)

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org

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