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Symmetry as destiny — taking a balanced view of IQ

Nature volume 387, pages 849–850 (1997)Cite this article

Genetic vulnerability during development may be responsible for environmental effects on intelligence. Taken with a study showing that the heritability of IQ does not change with age, could these results mean that nature and nurture are no longer in opposition?

The study of human intelligence has always had its feet in biology and its head in the clouds — the recent encounter between Gary Kasparov and Deeper Blue showed what can be achieved in confronting human intelligence with methods that have no plausible claim to mimic its cognitive processes. Two studies at the other end of the spectrum now serve as a reminder that intelligence operates on a substrate of wetware, not silicon.

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