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J. Philippe Rushton has argued that the effect should be called the " Lynn-Flynn effect ", after Richard Lynn, " because it was actually the Lynn ( 1982 ) article in Nature that first identified the trend in recent times ( amongst the Japanese ).
In 2008, Coleman was involved in an automobile accident after an altercation at a Payson, Utah bowling alley which began when Colt Rushton, age 24, photographed Coleman without his permission ; the two men argued, according to witnesses.
Rushton was treated at a local hospital for minor injuries and released.
Rushton was born in Bournemouth, England.
Judith Anderson said his work was based on statistically flawed evidence, John Archer and others said that Rushton failed to understand and misapplied the theory of kin selection, Judith Economos said he was speculative and failed to define the concept of altruistic behavior in a way that it can become manifest and failed to show any plausible mechanism by which members of a species can detect the " altruism gene " in other members of the species, and Steven Gangestad criticized the theory for not being compelling in terms of its attractiveness as an explanatory model, C. R.
Graves also says that Rushton misrepresented the sources for the biological data he gathered in support of his hypothesis, and that much of his social science data was collected by dubious means.
In his speech, Rushton said that Islam was not just a cultural, but also a genetic problem.
In 2005 Rushton was quoted in the Ottawa Citizen as blaming the destruction of " Toronto the Good " on its black inhabitants.
In the same article, Rushton was reported as suggesting that equalizing outcomes across groups was " impossible.
Wilson ( one of the two co-founders of the r / K selection theory which Rushton uses ) was quoted as having said about him:
" At the same occasion, when Rushton was asked if he believed in racial superiority, he said, " Oh, no!
The review article " Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability " by Rushton and Jensen was published in 2005.
Rushton further criticized the book for the absence of the results of five studies of twins reared corroborating the findings of Cyril Burt — the contemporary average was 0. 75 compared to the average of 0. 77 reported by Burt.
Alan R. Rushton notes that Harthacnut was son to Emma of Normandy, and that there was a pattern of sudden deaths among descendants of the House of Normandy.
Rushton notes that historians for centuries believed that poison was indeed the most likely explanation behind " an otherwise unexplained death ".
In 1974 Bill Oddie was replaced by Willie Rushton, and the personnel remained constant from this point until Rushton's death in 1996.
A memorial plaque to the late Willie Rushton, one of the show's longest-serving panelists, was installed at the station in 2002.
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton ( 18 August 1937 – 11 December 1996 ) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.
William George Rushton was born 18 August 1937 in the family home at Scarsdale Villas, Kensington, London ( which 24 years later was to also be the editorial birthplace of Private Eye ).
He was still in contact with his Shrewsbury friends, who had added John Wells to their number, and were now running their own humour magazines at Oxford, Parsons Pleasure and Mesopotamia, to which Rushton made many contributions during his frequent visits.

Rushton and always
Rushton had always been conscious of his weight, listing his recreations in Who's Who as " gaining weight, losing weight and parking ", and in 1973 he had been the host of a slimming programme Don ’ t Just Sit There.
Rushton was always an enthusiastic cricketer, playing in the Lord's Taverners, a charity celebrity cricket team.

Rushton and about
Also in 1988, Rushton conducted a survey at the Eaton Centre mall in Toronto, where he paid 50 whites, 50 blacks, and 50 Asians to answer questions about their sexual habits.
This settlement was started by Rasmus Nielsen, Edward Rushton, August Larsen and about seven others along with their families.
Born in about 1567, Francis Tresham was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Tresham, of Rushton in Northamptonshire, and Meriel Throckmorton, daughter of Sir Robert Throckmorton of Coughton in Warwickshire.
* BBC News item in 2002 about Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire
Bill Hunter has written several books, including Forgotten Hero: The Life and Times of Edward Rushton about the blind Liverpool-born anti-slavery campaigner, and the two part autobiography Lifelong Apprenticeship: The Life and Times of a Revolutionary.

Rushton and cricket
In each episode, the team captains Tim Rice and Willie Rushton were joined by another celebrity from showbiz or cricket.

Rushton and .
Rushton and Jensen argue against expecting the Flynn Effect to narrow the US black-white IQ gap since they see that gap as mostly genetic in origin and there is evidence from mathematical analyses that what causes the Flynn effect is different from what causes the black-white gap.
In the parking lot, Coleman allegedly backed his truck into Rushton, striking his knee and pulling him under the vehicle, before hitting another car.
Rushton is a Fellow of the American, British, and Canadian Psychological Associations and onetime Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
The family moved to Canada, where Rushton spent most of his teen years.
Rushton taught at York University in Canada from 1974 – 1976 and the University of Toronto until 1977.
Owing to his controversial research that has sparked political debates, including Ontario's premier David Peterson calling Rushton a racist, in 2005 The Ottawa Citizen described Rushton as the most famous university professor in Canada.
Early in his career, Rushton did research on altruism.
Rushton describes " ethnic conflict and rivalry " as " one of the great themes of historical and contemporary society ", and suggests that this may have its roots in the evolutionary impact on individuals from groups " giving preferential treatment to genetically similar others.
Littlefield and Rushton ( 1984 ) examined degree of bereavement among parents after the death of a child.
Russell, Wells, and Rushton ( 1985 ) reanalyzed several previous studies on similarities between spouses and concluded there is higher similarity on the more heritable characteristics.
Rushton and Nicholson ( 1988 ) argued that spouses are more similar on those cognitive tests that are more genetically influenced.
Rushton examined blood group genes and found that sexually interacting couples had more similar blood group genes than randomly paired individuals.
Rushton and Bons ( 2005 ) examined personality, attitude, and demographic characteristics for similarity among different groups of people.
Rushton has been one of the proponents for the explanation that racial differences in IQ are partially related to genetic inheritance.
Rushton argues that East Asians and their descendants average a larger brain size, greater intelligence, more sexual restraint, slower rates of maturation, and greater law abidingness and social organization than do Europeans and their descendants, who average higher scores on these dimensions than Africans and their descendants.
Graves argues that not only is r / K selection theory considered to be virtually useless when applied to human life history evolution, but Rushton does not apply the theory correctly, and displays a lack of understanding of evolutionary theory in general.
A number of later studies by Rushton and other researchers have argued that there are empirical support for the theory.

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