J. Philippe Rushton Quotes


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

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

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

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.

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

I was born in Bournemouth England in 1943.

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

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.

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

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

Race differences show up early in life.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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