J. Philippe Rushton Quotes

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and s*xual behavior.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Race differences show up early in life.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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J. Philippe Rushton (21)

Birth:	3rd December, 1943
Death:	2nd October, 2012
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Psychologist

About

John Philippe Rushton was born in Bournemouth, England. He was a British-born Canadian psychologist. He served as a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario. His book Race, Evolution, and Behavior is about the application of r/K selection theory to humans. He earned a B.Sc. degree in psychology from Birkbeck College at the University of London in 1970. In 1973, he received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics for work on altruism in children. He continued his work at the University of Oxford until 1974. He taught at York University in Canada from 1974–1976 and the University of Toronto until 1977. He received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

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