J. Philippe Rushton
J. Philippe Rushton
John Philippe Rushtonwas a British-born Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and other apparent racial variation. His book Race, Evolution, and Behavioris about the application of r/K selection theory to humans...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth3 December 1943
CountryCanada
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biological consistent devoid race relationships
If race were an arbitrary, socially-constructed concept, devoid of all biological meaning, such consistent relationships would not exist.
continue moved oxford research university
I then moved to the University of Oxford for a one-year post-doc to continue my research on personality development in children.
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But differentiation also occurs under less extreme circumstances. Zoologists and evolutionists refer to such differentiated populations as races.
alarming conclusion follows people treated
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.
race combination physiological
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.
country educational mean
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.
sports educational differences
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
race differences study
Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.
groups individual should
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
up-early differences race
Race differences show up early in life.
race people common
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 generations groups
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.
silly race people
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.
religious believe men
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.