Genes, Brains, and Human Potential The Science and Ideology of Intelligence

INDEX 377

diversifi cation of species, 137
DNA: epigenetic inheritance and, 129;
genetic engineering and, 292–293;
modifi cations to gene products and,
126; origins of life and, 110; signifi cance
of, 9–10
DNA sequencing: identifi cation of
intelligence genes and, 20–21; for
potential, 14–19
dominance hierarchies, 244–245
Drasgow, Fritze, 86
Drosophila, 144
Dunbar, Robin, 252
Duncan, Arne, 307
Duncan-Smith, Iain, 307
Dutch Famine (1944), 297, 298
Dweck, Carol, 323, 324

economics, free market, 251–254
ectoderm, 147
education: alternative, 335–340; correlation
between school performance and job
performance, 332–335; DNA sequencing
for intelligence and, 17–18; drive for
achievement and, 327–329; eff ects of
curriculum, 324–326; functions of,
320–321; introduction of compulsory,
76; neuroscience and, 28–29, 32–33;
pseudo-achievement and, 329–332;
self-fulfi lling labeling and, 321–324
Education Endowment Foundation, 28
“egg quality,” 156–157
Einstein, Albert, 286, 289
elemental associative learning, 213
Elman, David, 225
embodied understanding, 222
embryo, potential in, 155–157
emergent functions, 220–223
Emery, Nathan, 247–248
emigration, 67
emotion, 188–190, 193
emotional values, 189–190

endocrine signaling, 141

endocrine system, 158

Engel, Susan, 332

English-Romanian Adoption Study,

298–299

environment: assumptions regarding, 50;

brain development and, 196–197;

concepts of, in potential studies and

interventions, 308; debate over human

potential and, 2–3, 24–26; developmental

intelligence and, 141–142; developmental

plasticity and, 150–152; development

in changing, 136–137; diff erential

susceptibility and, 291–292; epigenetic

inheritance and, 128–129; equal

environments assumption, 57–58;

evolution of intelligent systems and,

308–309; horticulture and, 51;

identifying causes of variation and, 41;

impact of diversifi cation of species on,

137; infl uence on utilization of genes,

130–131; inheritance of, 313; non-shared,

303–304; potential and diff erent view

of, 308–310; promotion of potential and,

295–305; relevance and measurement of,

in twin studies, 58–59; wealth and,

314–315

environmental change: adaptation to,

111–115; intelligent responses to, in cells,

116–117; intelligent systems and, 115–117;

signaling, 118–125

epicognitive regulation, 237, 249

epidermal growth factor (EGF), 121

epigenesis, theory of, 149

epigenetic inheritance, 128–129

epigenetic markers, 57

epigenetics, 116–117, 128–129, 148, 149,

229, 313

equal environments assumption, 57–58

Ernst, Marc, 219

Ernst and Young, 334

Escherichia coli, 118

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