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Race differences show up early in life.
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Differences
Race
Up Early
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
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Born
England
Born I Was Born
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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London
University
Received
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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Race
Species
Term
Variety
Zoologist
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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Deny
Ethos
Levels
Race
Validity
Predictive
Unrealistic
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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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Canada
School
South
South Africa
Africa
Later
Places
Several
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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Groups
Individual
Should
Vary
Greatly
Individuals
Racial
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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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Gdp
Made
Moved
Ontario
University
Western
Professor
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Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.
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Arbitrary
Definitions
Race
Subjective
Concept
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Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.
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Differences
Race
Study
Nonetheless
Races
Statistical
Studying
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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Sports
Achievement
Crime
Differences
Educational
Factors
Race
Biological
Sexual
Underlying
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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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Britain
Canada
Caribbean
Lows
Relative
Sub Saharan Africa
United States
Africa
Blacks
Iq
Low
Scores
Sub-Saharan
Whites
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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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Combination
Physiological
Race
Traits
Variety
Behavioral
Characterized
Distinct
Inherited
More Or Less
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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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Contribution
Differences
Evidence
Passing
Study
Established
Firmly
Genetic
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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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Average
Conclusion
Data
Differences
Disappear
Alarming
All People
Follows
Startling
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But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
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Differences
Groups
Years
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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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Formation
Generations
Groups
Race
Frequently
Individuals
Reproduce
Several
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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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Achievement
Canada
Country
Educational
Mean
Prove
Countries
Increasingly
Internationally
Pattern
Valid
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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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Common
Descent
People
Race
Species
According
Family Work People
Biologists
Classify
Concept
Conflicts
Histories
Ignores
Studying
Tendency
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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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Genes
Genome
People
Race
Silly
Argue
Claimed
Construct
Project
Races
Roughly
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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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Average
Chinese
Different
Australians
Israelis
Nigerians
Similar
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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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Men
Believe
Classification
Evolution
Foolish
Fundamentalist
Human Beings
Religious
Life God Man
Life God Believe
Apply
Beings
Biological
Forms
Exempt
Image
Life Forms
Likeness
Unless
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Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.
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Environmental Factors
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