Edward Dutton (anthropologist)

Edward "Ed" Croft Dutton (born 1980 in London, England) is an English anthropologist who has studied cultural anthropology, human intelligence and evolutionary psychology.

Dutton completed a degree in Theology at Durham University in 2002 and a PhD in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen in 2005.

In 2011 he became a docent, or adjunct professor, of the anthropology of religion and Finnish culture at the University of Oulu in Finland. In 2020 he became Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at Asbiro University in Lódź, Poland.

Publications

Dutton is the author or co-author of 21 books and is known for his work on human intelligence, such as a study he co-authored with Richard Lynn concluding that physical scientists are more intelligent than social scientists. He has also studied the average IQ in Finland, and the apparent discrepancy between Finland's high average IQ and its relative lack of Nobel Prize-winning scientists. He is the author or co-author of several books arguing that there has been a decline in intelligence in modern times, including At Our Wits' End: Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What It Means for the Future with Michael Woodley of Menie and Breeding the Human Herd: Eugenics, Dysgenics and the Future of the Species.

Another of his books, The Silent Rape Epidemic: How the Finns Were Groomed to Love Their Abusers, discusses the psychology of the Finnish people and how it is relevant to their current situation with Muslim grooming gangs. Dutton argues that certain evolved aspects of Finnish psychology make them more vulnerable than other European ethnicities to exploitation by both rapists and unscrupulous leaders, but also that they are particularly well-suited to quickly reverse the situation.

Dutton's book Race Differences in Ethnocentrism deals with the differences between the major racial groups in terms of both positive and negative ethnocentrism and how these differences might have developed. He argues that ethnocentrism is an adaptive trait, giving groups an advantage in competition with others. Europeans have a low level of these traits, while South Asians, Middle Easterners and North Africans are much more ethnocentric.

Dutton's book, originally titled Why Islam Makes You Stupid ... But Also Means You'll Conquer the World, but later re-released as Islam: An Evolutionary Perspective, argues that several aspects of Islam both decrease the intelligence of Muslims and increase their group cohesion, with the latter giving them an advantage in conflict with outsiders.

His book Making Sense of Race explains the concept of race and covers a variety of physical and psychological differences between human races.

The author's book Witches, Feminism and the Fall of the West analyzes the characteristics of women who were historically persecuted as witches, arguing that they had maladaptive traits which threatened the broader society, and that similar traits are displayed by contemporary groups such as feminists.

In Sent Before Their Time the author shows that many people who were born prematurely have become great historical figures. He argues that this is due to the effects on the brain of premature birth.

Personal life

Dutton is distantly related to Sir Piers Dutton, about whom he wrote a biographical book entitled The Ruler of Cheshire: Sir Piers Dutton, Tudor Gangland and the Violent Politics of the Palatine. A British citizen, he is married to a Finnish woman, with whom he has two children.

External links

• Faculty page
• YouTube channel