David C. Rowe

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David C. Rowe (27 September 1949 – 2 February 2003) was an American psychology professor known for his work studying genetic and environmental influences on adolescent onset behaviors such as delinquency and smoking.

Rowe earned his A.B. from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from University of Colorado at Boulder.

In 1994 he was one of 52 signatories on "Mainstream Science on Intelligence," an editorial written by Linda Gottfredson and published in the Wall Street Journal, which defended the findings on race and intelligence in The Bell Curve. Rowe's work frequently supoorted hereditarianism.

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• Rowe DC (1995). The Limits of Family Influence: Genes, Experience, and Behavior. The Guilford Press, ISBN 0-89862-148-8
• Rowe DC (2001). Biology and Crime. Roxbury Publishing Company, ISBN 1-891487-80-9