Today i learned that Intelligence is heritable and it was a gut punch knowing my parents.
Can anyone clue me in on how it’s expressed or is it a soft cap?
Are highly hifted children anomalies or is it just a good expression of genes?
In: Biology
Intelligence is built up of many things.
In *no* priority order:
1. Family DNA
2. How much damage the parents did to their DNA in their youth before procreating (the line ‘sins of the father carried in the son is quite real genetically speaking)
3. Pregnancy, baby, childhood and teen years nutrition — virtually every country’s IQ was raised with the implementation of iodised salt, certain countries like the Himalayas which only used rock salt (no iodine) had genuine intelligence problems.
4. Baby, toddler, childhood, teen years stimulation and challenge.
Intelligence is 1. Virtually made up and 2. Entirely a thing of nature and nurture. We see endless evidence of twins separated at birth who have similar intelligences but due to their nurturing achieve different life ends.
But broadly speaking, a person from a highly substance abusive family whose birth mother didn’t take good nutritional care, whose developmental years were not focussed on good mental stimulation and nutritional goals is never going to compete brain function wise with a child from a drug and alcohol free home whose mother was fit and on all the good prenatal nutritional guidelines, who gave the child a varied diet and who went to lengths to stimulate the child growing up.
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