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Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are
Seven years ago, I took a bet from one of the most controversial figures in the scientific world. Charles Murray, the political scientist who—along with the late psychologist Richard Herrnstein—wrote The Bell Curve in 1994, wagered that
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How Genetics Methods Can Answer Intelligence Questions
Teaching: These lesson plans use genetic research to illustrate reliability and the distinction between correlation and causation.
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Like Likes Like: Partner Preferences May Be Explained by Genetics
A new study suggests that assortative mating, where partners choose a mate like themselves, can be explained by looking at inheritance of traits and the corresponding preferences for those traits.
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Enough With the Mom Guilt Already
… Numerous studies since then have backed up Harris’s core idea that parents don’t matter as much as many people think. Genes, for example, seem to play a bigger role than the environment that children are
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Researchers Identify Four Autism Subtypes with Distinct Genes and Traits
… When genetic sequencing of the human genome began in earnest in the 1990s, autism researchers hoped to identify the genetic cause—or more likely, causes—of the condition. “Twenty years ago the geneticists were saying, ‘We’re
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Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong?
… In the years since the consensus statement was published, however, the evidence for each of these A.D.H.D. biomarkers has faltered. Attempts to replicate the studies that showed differences in brain electrical activity came up
