J. Philippe Rushton

J. Philippe Rushton

Jean Philippe Rushton (December 3, 1943 – October 2, 2012) was a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who was most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r/K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior (1995). His work was heavily criticised by the scientific community, and it has been widely described as racist, as has the Pioneer Fund, the research foundation he was head of beginning in 2002.

Rushton was a Fellow of the American, British, and Canadian Psychological Associations and onetime Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.