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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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.J. Philippe Rushton
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.
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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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I then moved to the University of Oxford for a one-year post-doc to continue my research on personality development in children.
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If race were an arbitrary, socially-constructed concept, devoid of all biological meaning, such consistent relationships would not exist.
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