Genome: Chromosome 6 – Intelligence

In Chapter 6, towards the end of 1997, a brave scientist named Robert Polmin found the gene for intelligence. Mother Nature has not only given us the determination of our intellectual capacities to the blind fat of a gene, but also, she gave us parents learning, language, culture, and education to program ourselves with. Another scientist. H.H. Goddard’s IQ tests were biased towards middle-class or western cultural values. There are there kinds of intelligence: analytic, creative, and practical. Analytic problems are ones that are clearly defined and have only one right answer. Practical problems require you to recognize and formulate the problem itself and are poorly defined which sometimes lack information as well. Statistician Charles Spearman stated that if one child id well in one subject, that child will become independent and do well in others as well. Overall, hereditability does not mean immutability and your IQ changes with age, but so does its heritability.