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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• J. Philippe Rushton:

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

• J. Philippe Rushton:

  Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphol

• J. Philippe Rushton:

  Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reprod

• J. Philippe Rushton:

  Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likenes

• J. Philippe Rushton:

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

• J. Philippe Rushton:

  Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various huma

• J. Philippe Rushton:

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

• J. Philippe Rushton:

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

• J. Philippe Rushton:

  The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Cana

• J. Philippe Rushton:

  Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States hav