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
J. Philippe Rushton quotes about
london university
I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
england born
I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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.
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.
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.
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.
up-early differences race
Race differences show up early in life.
groups individual should
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
race differences study
Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.
sports educational differences
The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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.
race combination physiological
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.