Robert J Sternberg, who is listed as "Dean of School in Arts and Sciences & professor of Psychology at Tufts University", wrote a commentary piece on Watson's comments and the responses to them in New Scientist No. 2627, 27 Oct 07 (p24).

After giving a brief description of differing components of intelligence Sternberg wrote "Skin colour correlates only weakly with genetic differentiations" and "Race is a socially constructed concept, not a biological one ...[deriving] from people's desire to classify."

I hope nobody interpreted my comments about Scientific American as "dismissive". I agree with JiK's description of it and have sought it out whenever I've wanted a succinct summary of a field; I still remember the effect of September 1964 (?) issue on plate tectonics as the final nail in the coffin of "land bridges explain everything". But when trying to get students to understand the dynamic state of our comprehension of various fields (try homonin evolution), the students found Scientific American gave an authoritative tone while New Scientist articles (necessarily shorter in a weekly) gave more of the cut and thrust of debate. The Sternberg piece isn't even an article, but commentary and, presumably, only a spur to further investigation.

Cheers, Rowan