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Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo... by alach11 on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:28PM (#21917253)
> Previous studies demonstrating high heritability of IQ did not discriminate between genetic inheritance and social/cultural/environmental inheritance.

This simply isn't true. Studies of twins not raised together provide evidence that IQ is more than 50% heritable. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/neu.10160

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Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo... by pcrh on Monday December 30, 2019 @06:42PM (#21917712)
Heritability is not only genetic, it includes a wide variety of social factors.

Strict genetic heritability studies do not support a stong association of genetics with intelligence.

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Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo... by sbierwagen on Thursday January 02, 2020 @03:19PM (#21939361)
I'm curious to hear what exactly you think "twins not raised together" means.
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Re:Chinese scientist who edited twin babies' genes jailed fo... by lyssa17 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:46PM (#21942604)
The pre-natal environment is shared, and depending on the adoption process there could be a great deal of correlation in a range of environmental factors. It's not like these kids are grown in a vat and distributed randomly in the population is it?
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