The Biological Reality of Race - Glayde Whitney

Glayde Whitney was a behavioral geneticist and professor of psychology at Florida State University who became a controversial figure for his views on race and genetics. He argued for the biological reality of race, asserting that human racial groups are valid biological categories with significant genetic and phenotypic differences. His work was primarily published in outlets such as American Renaissance and Mankind Quarterly, which are widely criticized for promoting racialist and pseudoscientific ideas.

Whitney contended that modern genetics, particularly studies of allele frequencies, supports traditional racial classifications. He claimed that statistical analysis of genetic variation "gives results that are essentially identical to the racial groupings established by traditional anthropology," calling this a "virtually irrefutable demonstration of the reality of race."