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> Isn't it possible however, that James and Sarah would have had a child who would have become another Mozart, or Einstein? At least genetically this is unlike
by ImaCake 5y ago
> Isn't it possible however, that James and Sarah would have had a child who would have become another Mozart, or Einstein?
At least genetically this is unlikely. Several hundred genetic variants explain a good fraction of intelligence and a random mixing of Sarah and James’ variants will include ones that increase and decrease intelligence. Getting a really good random mix of several hundred variants is unlikely. That is, intelligence regresses towards the mean.
- kergonath 5y agoThat is a lot of pseudoscientific bullshit, if you don’t have the stats to prove it.
- ImaCake 5y agoHow is it bullshit? There is plenty of science to backup the claim that intelligence is heritable [0]. From there the rest of what I said is basic population genetics statistics. 0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29335645/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29335645/