Biologist Quote by J. Philippe Rushton

“none of the ways in which we talk about race today stands up to the scrutiny that genetics has enabled. Families are too untidy,…

— Adam Rutherford

Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they are often…

— Elliott Sober

“As this book will show, objectively defined races simply do not exist. Even Arthur Mourant realized that fact nearly fifty years ago, when he…

— Bryan Sykes

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people…

— J. Philippe Rushton

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

— Gerald Vizenor

“Because of these divisions in the human population, anyone interested in recent human evolution is almost inevitably studying human races, whether they wish to…

— Nicholas Wade

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

— J. Philippe Rushton

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science…

— Manisha Sinha

“One of the more obvious differences between modern humans is skin color. We make crude visual distinctions and effectively meaningless categorizations based on average…

— Adam Rutherford

“Several of the intellectual barriers erected many years ago to combat racism now stand in the way of studying the recent evolutionary past. These…

— Nicholas Wade

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and…

— Carter G. Woodson

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In…

— Stephen Jay Gould