Balder Ex-Libris - Rushton John PhilippeReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearRushton John Philippe - Is race a valid taxonomic construct ?urn:md5:7b49b2d0cca0ef90c1dfc17763d0a48e2013-07-08T20:15:00+01:002013-07-08T19:37:02+01:00balderRushton John PhilippeRacialism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img2/.Rushton_John_Philippe_-_Is_race_a_valid_taxonomic_construct_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Rushton John Philippe</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Is race a valid taxonomic construct ?</strong><br />
Year : 2001<br />
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The answer to the question posed in the title of this paper is “yes.” If the concept of race didn’t exist, science would have to invent it (and did)! Race is a valid taxonomic construct because it allows us to make predictions about people’s behavior, especially at the group level. In science, a concept is useful if it groups facts so that general laws and conclusions can be drawn from them. Predictions can be made using the taxonomic category of race because, on average, the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans are similar to each other and different from White Americans, Germans, and Russians, who are similar to each other and different from Black Americans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Predictability is the criterion by which the value of a hypothetical construct like race is evaluated. As I will show, race is highly predictive. For the past 20 years my research has focused on differences between the three major races, commonly termed Orientals (East Asians, Mongoloids), Whites (Europeans, Caucasoids), and Blacks (Africans, Negroids). Roughly speaking, Orientals are those who have most of their ancestors from East Asia. Whites have most of their ancestors from Europe. And Blacks have most of their ancestors from sub-Saharan Africa. In the main, I have not addressed the many other groups outside of these three major races, or sub-groups within the three major races, though they are of interest as well. What I've found is that in brain size, intelligence, temperament, sexual behavior, fertility, growth rate, life span, crime, and family stability, Orientals, as a group, consistently fall at one end of the spectrum, Blacks fall at the other end, and Whites fall in between. On average, Orientals are slower to mature, less fertile, and less sexually active, and have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the opposite end in each of these areas. Whites fall in the middle, often close to Orientals (see Chart 1). <strong>...</strong></p>Rushton John Philippe - James Watson’s most inconvenient truth : Race realism and the moralistic fallacyurn:md5:53708d3da3f5503ace775b9204890b2f2012-06-18T11:30:00+01:002013-07-08T19:30:04+01:00balderRushton John PhilippeRacesRacialism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Rushton_J_Philippe_-_James_Watson_s_most_inconvenient_truth_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Rushton John Philippe</strong><br />
Title : <strong>James Watson’s most inconvenient truth : Race realism and the moralistic fallacy</strong><br />
Year : 2008<br />
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Recent editorials in this journal have defended the right of eminent biologist James Watson to raise the unpopular hypothesis that people of sub-Saharan African descent score lower, on average, than people of European or East Asian descent on tests of general intelligence. As those editorials imply, the scientific evidence is substantial in showing a genetic contribution to these differences. The unjustified ill treatment meted out to Watson therefore requires setting the record straight about the current state of the evidence on intelligence, race, and genetics. In this paper, we summarize our own previous reviews based on 10 categories of evidence: The worldwide distribution of test scores; the g factor of mental ability; heritability differences; brain size differences; trans-racial adoption studies; racial admixture studies; regression-to-the-mean effects; related life-history traits; human origins research; and the poverty of predictions from culture-only explanations. The preponderance of evidence demonstrates that in intelligence, brain size, and other life-history variables, East Asians average a higher IQ and larger brain than Europeans who average a higher IQ and larger brain than Africans. Further, these group differences are 50–80% heritable. These are facts, not opinions and science must be governed by data. There is no place for the ‘‘moralistic fallacy’’ that reality must conform to our social, political, or ethical desires. <strong>...</strong></p>Rushton John Philippe - Race, Evolution and Behaviorurn:md5:903c6597559a9704eb0bb06d208309a72011-12-17T03:15:00+00:002013-08-30T16:19:09+01:00balderRushton John PhilippeRacesRacialism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img/.Rushton_J_Philippe_-_Race_Evolution_and_Behavior_s.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Rushton John Philippe</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Race, Evolution and Behavior : A life History Perspective</strong><br />
Year : 1995, third unabridged edition 2000<br />
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Commentary on J. Philippe Rushton's Race, Evolution, and Behavior "(An) incendiary thesis .... that separate races of human beings evolved different reproductive strategies to cope with different environments and that these strategies led to physical differences in brain size and bence in intelligence. Human beings who evolved in the warm but highly unpredictable environment of Africa adopted a strategy of high reproduction, while human beings who migrated to the hostile cold of Europe and northern Asia took to producing fewer children but nurturing them more carefully." -Malcolm W. Browne, New York Times Book Review "Rush ton is a serious scholar who has assembled serious data. Consider just one example: brain size. The empirical reality, verified by numero us modern studies, including several based on magnetic resonance imaging, is that a significant and substantial relationship does exist between brain size and measured intelligence after body size is taken into account and that the races do have different distributions of brain size." -Charles Murray, Afterword to The Bell Curve "Describes hundreds of studies worldwide that show a consistent pattern of human racial differences in such characteristics as intelligence, brain size, genital size, strength of sex drive, reproductive potency, industriousness, sociability, and rule following. On each of these variables, the groups are aligned in the order: Orientais, Caucasians, Blacks." -Mark Snyderman, National Review "Rushton's Race, Evolution, and Behavior, which is about race differences in IQ and cranial capacity, is an attempt to understand these differences in terms of life-history evolution .... Perhaps there ultimately will be sorne serious contribution from the traditional smoke-and-mirrors social science treatment of IQ, but for now Rushton's framework is essentially the only game in town." - Henry Harpending, Evolutionary Anthropology <strong>...</strong></p>