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.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

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

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.

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.

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

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.

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.

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.

Race differences show up early in life.

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.

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

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.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

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.

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

Athletics and physical activity are important parts of youth development, in my experience and view.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

I should have been thinking more about my family, how I raised my children, how I maintained life's work, so to speak.

I've just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it's great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It's so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts.

I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

I have, as you know, the utmost respect for President Obama as a person.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

I started wrestling professionally, I did my first television match at 16, but I was wrestling at country fairs and national armories when I was 14.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfect restaurant - we might indeed postpone sadness. And maybe even halfway through, we will remain in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

Selfishness and self absorption are deadly charm exterminators.

It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.