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Actually if anything this phenomenon would increase the probability of the super IQ thing. Intelligence isn't determined by one gene, but many thousands. Just l
by Houshalter 11y ago
Actually if anything this phenomenon would increase the probability of the super IQ thing. Intelligence isn't determined by one gene, but many thousands. Just like there are very few people who happen to be exactly average on dozens of different traits, there are very few people who happen to have the absolute best possible combination of genes to get max intelligence.
That is, assuming there is some optimal combination of genes, it gets exponentially more unlikely any individual has it, the more genes there are that affect intelligence. Just like you would be unlikely to flip 1,000 heads in a row. In fact flipping even 600 heads out of a thousand, is exceedingly unlikely.