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RACE, EVOLUTION,
AND BEHAVIOR :
A Life History Perspective
2nd Special Abridged Edition
Professor J. Philippe Rushton
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2
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Acclaim for 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 hence 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
“Rushton is a serious scholar who has assembled serious data. Consider just one example: brain size. The empirical
reality, verified by numerous 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: Orientals, Caucasians,
Blacks.”
---Mark Snyderman, National Review
“Rushton’s Race, Evolution, and Behavio r...is an attempt to understand [race] differences in terms of life-history
evolution....Perhaps there ultimately will be some 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
. “This brilliant book is the most impressive theory-based study...of the psychological and behavioral differences
between the major racial groups that I have encountered in the world literature on this subject.”
---Arthur R. Jensen, University of California, Berkeley
“The only acceptable explanation of race differences in behavior allowed in public discourse is an entirely
environmental one...Professor Rushton deserves our gratitude for having the courage to declare that ‘this emperor
has no clothes,’ and that a more satisfactory explanation must be sought.”
---Thomas J. Bouchard, Jr., University of Minnesota
“The remarkable resistance to racial science in our times has led to comparisons with the inquisition of Rome, active
during the Renaissance.... Astronomy and the physical sciences had their Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo a few
centuries ago; society and the welfare of humanity is the better for it today. In a directly analogous fashion,
psychology and the social sciences today have their Darwin, Galton, and Rushton.”
---Glayde Whitney, Contemporary Psychology
“The data are startling to the uninitiated.... Race, Evolution, and Behavior confronts us as few books have with the
dilemmas wrought in a democratic society by individual and group differences in key human traits.”
---Linda Gottfredson, Politics and the Life Sciences
“Professor Rushton is widely known and respected for the unusual combination of rigour and originality in his
work....Few concerned with understanding the problems associated with race can afford to disregard this storehouse
of well-integrated information which gives rise to a remarkable synthesis.”
---Hans J. Eysenck, University of London
“Should, if there is any justice, receive a Nobel Prize.”
---Richard Lynn, Spectator.
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Race, Evolution, and Behavior:
A Life History Perspective
2nd Special Abridged Edition
J. Philippe Rushton
Race, Evolution, and Behavior
2nd Special Abridged Edition
Copyright @ 2000 by J. Philippe Rushton
All rights reserved.
Published by the Charles Darwin Research Institute
Port Huron, MI
1st (1995) and 2nd (1997) Unabridged editions published
by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ.
Japanese translation of 1st edition published by
Hakuhin-sha of Tokyo (1996).
1st Special Abridged Edition published
by Transaction Publishers (1999).
Library of Congress Card Number: 00-103721
ISBN: 0-9656836-2-1
Printed in the United States of America
Rushton, J. Philippe, 1943-
Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History
Perspective/J. Philippe Rushton. — 2nd spec. ab. ed.
[GN 281:4.R87 2000].
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Author
J. Philippe Rushton is a professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario,
London, Ontario, Canada. Rushton holds two doctorates from the University of London (Ph.D.
and D.Sc) and is a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and the American, British, and Canadian Psychological
Associations. He is also a member of the Behavior Genetics Association, the Human Behavior
and Evolution Society, and the Society for Neuroscience. Rushton has published six books and
nearly 200 articles. In 1992 the Institute for Scientific Information ranked him the 22nd most
published psychologist and the 11th most cited. Professor Rushton is listed in Who’s Who in
Science and Technology, Who’s Who in International Authors, and Who’s Who in Canada.
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Contents
Preface
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1. Race is More Than Skin Deep
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2. Maturation, Crime, and Parenting
13
3. Sex, Hormones, and AIDS
18
4. Intelligence and Brain Size
22
5. Genes, Environment, or Both?
28
6. Life History Theory
34
7. Out of Africa
39
8. Questions and Answers
42

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