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The Mankind Quarterly is a scientific journal dedicated to physical anthropology. It contains articles on human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, languages, race, etc. It is published by the Pioneer fund and was founded in 1961, aiming to reunifify biology with anthropology.

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 different contributors are such controversial academics as Arthur Jenson, Cyril Burt, Hans J Eysenck, Richard Lynn and William Shockley, all known for their work in race and intelligence. Among its editors has been Roger Pearson who is known for establishing the Northern League in 1958.

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 realized that many of the works cited by Herrnstein and Murray had first been published in Mankind Quarterly.