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Heredity and Environment in Intelligence

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Intelligence test scores show substantial heritability within populations and remain strongly responsive to environment.

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Adopted children's scores move toward those of their adoptive homes while retaining resemblance to biological parents.

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Heritability within a group says nothing about differences between groups. That inference is invalid.

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