In conversation with J. Philippe Rushton
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Please cite this article in press as: Nyborg, H. 10.1016/j.paid.2012.03.010 The interview covers Rushton’s background in England, South Africa, and Canada, his education at the University of London (B.Sc., 1970; Ph.D., 1973), and his early research (1970–1980) on the social learning of generosity in 7to 11-year olds. In his first book, Altruism, socialization, and society (1980), Rushton solved two ‘‘anomalies’’ for his social learning perspective—altruism in animals and traits in people— causing a ‘‘paradigm shift’’ for him toward sociobiology. He spent January to June 1981 at the University of California, Berkeley, to study the longitudinal stability of personality traits like altruism. There, he was influenced by Jensen’s work on g and race differences in rate of maturation and two-egg twinning. Subsequently, Rushton found that across 60 variables, Europeans fall between East Asians and Africans, closer to East Asians. He extrapolated Wilson’s (fast–slow) r-K life history theory to explain the pattern. Also covered is Rushton’s research on the heritability of altruism, and Genetic Similarity Theory explaining assortative mating and ethnic nepotism. Spouses and best friends are as similar as half-siblings and people randomly chosen from the same ethnic group are as related as first cousins. Altruism follows lines of similarity to replicate genes effectively. Rushton’s research on creativity is described. 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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