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Searching for Intelligence in Our Genes (sciam.com)
5 points by robg on Oct 13, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


“Two people with the same genes correlate as much as a person does with himself a year later,” Plomin says. “Identical twins reared apart are almost as similar as identical twins reared together.” But these similarities also take time to emerge. “By the age of 16 these adopted-away children resemble their biological parents’ IQ just as much as kids do who are reared by their biological parents,”

I have always been a big nuture guy. I may have some back-peddling to do!




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