"Race, Evolution, and Behavior," by Professor J. Philippe Rushton

[Hector12]

The Chinese people that excel over their white Caucasian peers in universities? That's not because Orientals are smarter than white people. We should all understand the real reason.

I'll leave that question to this forum's members. The answer should put an end to this nonsense.

The Imperial Exams genetically selected the Chinese for superior intelligence. Men who could pass the exams were expected to have several wives and many children.

 

[Libby von H]

In Race Evolution and Behavior Professor J. Philippe Rushton provides impressive scientific evidence in favor of race realism.

Race realism makes the following assertions about race. First, race is an important biological category of humans.

Second, the races differ significantly in average characteristics necessary to the creation and maintenance of successful societies and civilizations.

Third, average racial differences in performance and behavior are the result of thousands of years of evolution in response to different population pressures.

An abridgment of the book may be found here.

http://www.harbornet.com/folks/theedrich/JP_Rushton/Race.htm

I have purchased a hard copy of the abridged edition, which is virtually the same as the online essay.

The pdf of the third edition, which is much longer, can be found here:

https://philipperushton.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Race-Evolution-and-Behavior-ocr.pdf

I have read the online edition of the longer edition of Race, Evolution, and Behavior. I have had trouble buying a hard copy of it. I prefer a physical book that I can read in my easy chair, underline stuff, and write notes in the margins.

What is called “race realism” was the scientific and political consensus before the Second World War. Following that War revelations of the Holocaust made many people want to believe that race differences did not matter or that they did not exist.

This is ironic because the Holocaust was directed at the most accomplished 0.2% of the human population. Professor Rushton acknowledges the higher average intelligence of Ashkenazi Jews.

Race, Intelligence, and the Brain: The Errors and Omissions of the Revised Edition of S. J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man (1996)

For years I had thought that as the Holocaust faded as a living memory it would be possible to have a rational and civil discussion of intrinsic, average racial differences. Nevertheless, as genetic and sociological evidence accumulates to substantiate race realism, efforts to suppress this evidence increase too.

Professor Rushton divides races into those he calls “Orientals” (AKA, East Asians). These are Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese. I would add Vietnamese. Then there are whites. These are Caucasians who live in Europe, or who are descended from people who did. Finally, there are Negroes. This is the race that evolved in sub Saharan Africa. Professor Rushton recognizes that all humans do not fit into one of these races, but most humans do.

Harvard Professor Richard Lewontin has popularized the belief that “Race is only a social construct.”

In his response, Charles Murray, who can also be called a race realist, mentions an interesting experiment in his essay “The Inequality Taboo.”

3,636 people were asked to identify themselves by race. Then they were asked to donate a tissue sample for DNA testing. Finally, their tissue samples were analyzed by scientists who did not know what races the donors said they belonged to. The donors and the testers agreed 99.9 percent of the time. This experiment has been duplicated several times with different groups of people, and the same results.

http://www.iapsych.com/wj3ewok/LinkedDocuments/Murray2005.pdf

Anyone who has had extensive experience with Orientals, whites, and Negroes has probably noticed that they differ in average intelligence and behavior.

SAT and ACT Scores by Race/Ethnicity

Percentage of Births to Unmarried Women | Center for Equal Opportunity​

www.ceousa.org

Professor Rushton explains these differences by drawing attention to different population pressures lasting for thousands of years. In sub Saharan Africa there was no defense against lethal diseases. These killed randomly. Nevertheless, food was plentiful, because disease and inter tribal warfare kept the population low. The best reproductive strategy for men and women was to have many children by several different partners, with the expectation that several children would survive the diseases. Several different partners would increase the likelihood that some of the children would have more natural resistances to the diseases than other children.

When some humans migrated out of Africa – Professor Rushton claims this happened about 100,000 years ago; others estimate a more recent migration, perhaps 60,000 years ago – and when they moved to colder climates they found different population pressures. Disease was less of a problem, but finding enough food was more of a problem. People had to build warm clothes and habitations and to store food for the winter months. This took more intelligence. Women could not do this alone; they needed the help of a man.

Thus, it made sense to have a small number of children, and to raise them carefully. Because Orientals evolved in a slightly colder climate than whites, this made more sense for them than whites. Again the attentive observer has probably noticed that Orientals tend to be more intelligent and monogamous than whites.

These behavioral differences continue to characterize Orientals, whites, and Negroes, even when they share countries and environments. This is because instincts that took thousands of years to evolve continue to influence behavior.

Professor Rushton is usually careful to write in terms of averages and tendencies, rather than consistent differences. He recognizes that there are intelligent, monogamous, and law abiding Negroes, just as there are stupid, promiscuous Oriental criminals.

The major shortcoming of Race Evolution and Behavior is that Professor Rushton ignores the evolutionary effect of civilization. He claims that cold climates select against physical aggression. Anyone who agrees has never studied the history of the Huns, the Vikings, and the Mongols.

In “The Roman State and Genetic Pacification,” Professor Peter Frost, and in “Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification,” Professor’s Peter Frost and Henry Harpending argue that civilization, rather than cold climates, selects genetically against physical aggression.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230796751_The_Roman_State_and_Genetic_Pacification

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470491501300114

They point out that until fairly recently in civilized countries criminals were usually killed at the scene of the crime, they died in custody, or they were executed. There was no effort at rehabilitation. It is rarely effective. The few children some criminals had rarely lived to adulthood.

In a tribal environment all men fight in the wars. The best warriors have more than one wife, and consequently more sons who inherit their violent inclinations and abilities. Men are expected to avenge wrongs done to them, their relatives and their friends. Women usually refuse to become involved with men who do not do this.

In a civilization the military is one of several specialties a man may adopt. Enlisted men often find it difficult to raise families.

Most men are never in combat. The government has the effective monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. The government punishes wrongs done to oneself, one’s relatives, and one’s friends.

Consequently, a tribal environment selects genetically for physical aggression; a civilization selects genetically for peaceful behavior.

Professor Rushton acknowledges that race realism resembles Nazi theories. He points out that theories of human nature opposite to race realism resemble Communist theories, and that Communist governments have killed lots of people too.

But "The Inequality Myth" defeats itself

IFthe following is true and it is, to what part of the subject do you attribute the lower IQ ????

by K Bryc · 2015 · Cited by 699 — Genome-wide ancestry estimates of African Americans show average proportions of 73.2% African, 24.0% European

 

[Libby von H]

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Do you really think no one on here will recognzie Screamin Jay Hawkins. That is ego gone wrong on your part

 

[Libby von H]

Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man is often considered to be the "decisive rebuttal" of The Bell Curve, by Professor Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray.

In the following book review Professor J. Philippe Rushton takes Gould apart, while discussing average racial intelligence differences: .

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Race, Intelligence, and the Brain: The Errors and Omissions of the Revised Edition of S. J. Gould's The Mismeasure of Man (1996)


Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 23, No. 1 (July 1997), pp. 169-180

J. Philippe Rushton
Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5C2, Canada

Gould withholds from his readers that The Bell Curve is mainly an empirical work about the causes of social stratification and that it reached its conclusions only after fully analyzing a 12-year longitudinal study of 12,486 youths (3,022 of whom were African American) which showed that most 17-year-olds with high IQs (Blacks as well as Whites) went on to occupational success by their late 20s and early 30s whereas many of those with low IQs (both Black and White) went on to welfare dependency.

The average IQ for African Americans was found to be lower than those for Latino, White, Asian, and Jewish Americans (85, 89, 103, 106, and 115, respectively, pp. 273-278). Failure to mention these data fosters the false belief that IQ tests are not predictive and are biased in favor of North Europeans.

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"Perhaps the strongest evidence against a genetic basis for intergroup differences in IQ is that the average level of mental test performance has changed very significantly for whole populations over time and, moreover, particular ethnic groups within the population have changed their relative positions during a period when there was very little intermarriage to change the genetic makeup of these groups….

Perhaps the most dramatic changes were those in the mental test performances of Jews in the United States. The results of World War I mental tests conducted among American soldiers born in Russia–the great majority of whom were Jews–showed such low scores as to cause Carl Brigham, creator of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, to declare that these results “disprove the popular belief that the Jew is highly intelligent.” Within a decade, however, Jews in the United States were scoring above the national average on mental tests, and the data in The Bell Curveindicate that they are now far above the national average in IQ.

the failure to draw the logical inference seems puzzling. Blacks today are just as racially different from whites of two generations ago as they are from whites today. Yet the data suggest that the number of questions that blacks answer correctly on IQ tests today is very similar to the number answered correctly by past generations of whites. If race A differs from race B in IQ, and two generations of race A differ from each other by the same amount, where is the logic in suggesting that the IQ differences are even partly racial?

Where indeed is the logic–the word bears repeating: the logic–in suggesting that IQ differences are even partly racial?"

 

[TheParser]

Whoa Nellie!!!

What a hurtful topic.

We have been taught since the 1960s that all races are equal. The only difference is pigmentation.

And one had better publicly support this theory if one wants to find a job.

In real life, we all know this theory ain't true.

Some races in general are smarter; some races in general commit less crime.

If one is waiting for an elevator, and three elevator doors open at once, and if elevator A has only three Caucasian teenagers, and elevator B has only three Asian teenagers, and elevator C has only three African American teenagers, we all know which elevator that most people (including "liberals") would get into.

 

[Hector12]

YOU ARE BOTH WRONG

"Perhaps the strongest evidence against a genetic basis for intergroup differences in IQ is that the average level of mental test performance has changed very significantly for whole populations over time and, moreover, particular ethnic groups within the population have changed their relative positions during a period when there was very little intermarriage to change the genetic makeup of these groups….

Perhaps the most dramatic changes were those in the mental test performances of Jews in the United States. The results of World War I mental tests conducted among American soldiers born in Russia–the great majority of whom were Jews–showed such low scores as to cause Carl Brigham, creator of the Scholastic Aptitude Test, to declare that these results “disprove the popular belief that the Jew is highly intelligent.” Within a decade, however, Jews in the United States were scoring above the national average on mental tests, and the data in The Bell Curveindicate that they are now far above the national average in IQ.


Where indeed is the logic–the word bears repeating: the logic–in suggesting that IQ differences are even partly racial?"

The assertion that Jews have low IQ's was based on a small testing sample taken a century ago. Since then Jews have excelled on all the mental aptitude tests, however they are designed. Negroes, on the other hand have always tended to perform poorly, both on tests, and in academic work.

 

[Libby von H]

The assertion that Jews have low IQ's was based on a small testing sample taken a century ago. Since then Jews have excelled on all the mental aptitude tests, however they are designed. Negroes, on the other hand have always tended to perform poorly, both on tests, and in academic work.

False again.

Whatever your view of overall there is a Normal Curve there and many Blacks are brilliant beyond many whites.
So there is no upper limit. Also , you can't define Black the way you do.

Genome-wide ancestry estimates of African Americans show average proportions of 73.2% African, 24.0% European.So with 25% non-Black to what do you ascribe poor performance ?You say the African part but that in itself is racist.

With increasing intermarriage are you going to revive the old joke about the dumpy brillant professor who married the beautiful dumb model --- the children got her intelligence and his looks