andrewducker | (Reply)

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Is Intelligence in the Genes?

Interesting, though I hope he doesn't leave out environmental factors. Nutritional and Physical Degeneration by Weston A Price was a classic when it comes to nutritional factors when it comes to human development, though there are certainly other works and studies since then. I'm just too lazy to look for them and link to them right now.

I wouldn't mind the idea of studying this kind of thing someday, but co-factors are very important, not just having the right parents.

Granted, technically genes are important, in how other species can be very limited in comparison, and we've had a cognitive revolution some time in our past, much of it due to increase in consumption of meat and fat intake.

Pre-ETA: I'm sick of hearing people bringing up the name of a particular denomination of Judaism whose name I forgot how to spell at the moment, they're not a 'pure' group by any means, it's not unusual for other Jews (or members of other ethnic and religious groups for that matter) marry in to them, and their genetic problems have more to do with gene pool issues than intelligence. If anything I think an intellectually friendly environment would probably say more about how it affects cognitive development than simply genetics.