J. Philippe Rushton Quotations

But differentiation also occurs under less extreme circumstances. Zoologists and evolutionists refer to such differentiated populations as races.

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

If race were an arbitrary, socially-constructed concept, devoid of all biological meaning, such consistent relationships would not exist.

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

I then moved to the University of Oxford for a one-year post-doc to continue my research on personality development in children.

Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

Race differences show up early in life.

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.