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J. Philippe Rushton

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

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

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"A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species."
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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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"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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"We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places."
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"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."
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"To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic."
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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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"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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