Questions tagged [intelligence]
While no precise and agreed upon definition exists, intelligence, in essence, refers to the ability to critically acquire, interpret and apply information.
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Is there a correlation between total neurons and intelligence?
Thanks for looking.
First off, I am not a biologist, just a curious layman, so I apologize in advance if this isn't a "good" question. Please don't downvote me into oblivion.
I read today ...
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Genes and Intelligence
Assuming that intelligence has a genetic component,
• do we know which genes contribute to it?
and, if so,
• can we predict intelligence from genomic analysis?
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How do heredity and regression to the mean work with respect to intelligence?
I am trying to understand the heredity of intelligence between generations in general, and how regression to the mean works in detail in particular. The answer I'm looking for should preferably answer ...
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Is life expectancy linked to intelligence in animals?
For example, animals that live only a few days or a few years are often not very intelligent. In contrast, the most intelligent animals seem to live longer.
Is this true? Are there any studies to ...
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Do the mother's genes determine the sons' (heredity) intelligence more than the father's?
It is a general belief that a person's intelligence is determined by both nature and nurture.
I can find a study by Turner 1996 ( in fact, this is the motivation of this question), which makes the ...
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What are the consequences of inbreeding?
Inbreeding increases the risk of getting two identical recessive genes, alleles, that cause a disease which wouldn't have been activated with mixed genes. That's how I understand it anyway. But I ...
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Have creatures ever evolved to become less intelligent?
Inspired by https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58533/is-intelligence-the-natural-product-of-evolution , I'm wondering if creatures have ever become less intelligent as a result of ...
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How was the heritability of IQ tested?
I have read that IQ is highly heritable.
How could this be tested?
For honest testing, it seems to me that only children who were abandoned should have been tested, to exclude education effect. Was ...
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Was the evolution of humans inevitable? [closed]
Suppose we wind time back to the instance when life emerged on Earth and let evolution start over again, will human beings or any other kind of self-conscious animals evolve ultimately, inevitably?
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