Children inherit their intelligence from their mother not their father

Re:Children inherit their intelligence from their mother not... by endisukaj on Friday October 07, 2016 @12:24PM (#12661881)

> Women are more likely to transmit intelligence genes to their children because they are carried on the X chromosome and women have two of these, while men only have one.

What if the child is a female?

> Laboratory studies using genetically modified mice found that those with an extra dose of maternal genes developed bigger heads and brains, but had little bodies. Those with an extra dose of paternal genes had small brains and larger bodies.

Since when does brain size within a species correlate with intelligence?

This article reeks with pseudo-science to me. How can you even measure intelligence? What does it even mean?

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Re:Children inherit their intelligence from their mother not... by Pica_soO on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:16PM (#12662731)

Intelligence is the speed and flexibility of a individual to adapt to new situations. If Einstein and a papua-new-guinea native visit the zoo, and you sneak up on them and shove both into the ice-bear enclosure pool- the guy being eaten for dessert is the most intelligent as he adapted to rapid context change. The problem starts when you view humanity as a meta-species- made from specialized "idiot" cells. Alone they are useless, but together they can build zoos and try to answer the question who shoved who. 20 autistic savants combined, can form together something more clever - but by the zoo-ice-berg metric they are useless.

In the end its really the situation which defines intelligence.

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