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.

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.

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

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

Race differences show up early in life.

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

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.