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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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