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Richard Herrnstein (1930-1994) was a prominent researcher on comparative psychology who did pioneering work on pigeon intelligence. He became very controversial for his work with Charles Murray on the correlation between race and intelligence, discussed in their book The Bell Curve.
Despite attempted refutations of The Bell Curve, most of which were politically motivated, there has been few, if any, direct attacks on the evolutionary biology theories upon which the book is based. Eric R. Kandel even dedicates a significant portion of his latest textbook, Fundamentals of Neural Science, to the correlation between genes, behavior, and aptitude.
