Genes, Brains, and Human Potential The Science and Ideology of Intelligence
8 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL message was that social inequalities are really just smudged expressions of ge ne tic inequalities, and ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 9 Any glance at the lit er a ture confi rms this. Behavioral ge ne ticists them- selves are inclined to u ...
10 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL and goes on, “ Th ere’s no debate that the DNA blueprint is a starting point.” (Well, there is a debat ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 11 booklet for building a human.” And when referring to people’s durable qualities, nearly every one now ...
12 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL In the twentieth century, understanding of the brain has relied heavi ly on allusions to technological ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 13 0 to 1, or as a percentage). It is estimated from breeding experiments under controlled environmental ...
14 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL disseminated to the unwary. “We can’t ignore the evidence,” says Jill Boucher, in Prospect Magazine (N ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 15 entirely from twin studies that (even if valid) impute sources of statisti- cal variance, not gene ide ...
16 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL bodies like the National Institutes of Health in the United States, and the U.K. Medical Research Coun ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 17 But splashed around the world’s media just before Christmas 2015 was the declaration that Imperial Col ...
18 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL to be found in biological fatalism. But scientifi c meetings and seminars with titles like “Th e Molec ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 19 Th e worrying way in which the hyperbole has penetrated the public mind, however, is illustrated in th ...
20 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL complexity.” And in 2015, he admits that “scientists have not identifi ed a single gene that would mee ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 21 In other words, humans share the vast majority of their genes and their nucleotide sequences: any two ...
22 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL looks like— and then, when we’ve captured something, not being at all sure what we’ve got. Even more c ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 23 But there are now deeper ripples of concern. At last, it is beginning to dawn on people that the genom ...
24 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL What really worries me is that attempts to so “chemicalize” human potential in this century could have ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 25 above, Eric Turkheimer pointed out that “attempts to [identify] systematic environmental causes that p ...
26 PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL say that “most researchers now believe that young minds are better thought of as developing muscles... ...
PINNING DOWN POTENTIAL 27 with ge ne tics, scholars and prac ti tion ers, as well as the media and gen- eral public, have been s ...
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