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

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.

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.

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.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

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