> Prodigies which happen to be good in a field related to what their parents are good at. Often the wording used indicates a memory-like reason. For example, fi

> Prodigies which happen to be good in a field related to what their parents are good at. Often the wording used indicates a memory-like reason. For example, finding the rules of chess "familiar." I think this could be equally well explained through 'nurture' rather than 'nature'. If a child's parents are skilled at chess and play it often, the child is going to be exposed to it at a much earlier age and for more often than a child of non-chess-players, making it more 'familiar' and 'intuitive'. To be honest I'm not super familiar with the research in this area but my sense was that there's some amount of experimental evidence for both genetic and environmental factors playing a part together, rather than just one or the other. It's very interesting though -- might have to go do some reading.