The heritability of IQ
@article{Devlin1997TheHO, title={The heritability of IQ}, author={B. Devlin and Michael J. Daniels and K. Roeder}, journal={Nature}, year={1997}, volume={388}, pages={468-471} }
IQ heritability, the portion of a population's IQ variability attributable to the effects of genes, has been investigated for nearly a century, yet it remains controversial. Covariance between relatives may be due not only to genes, but also to shared environments, and most previous models have assumed different degrees of similarity induced by environments specific to twins, to non-twin siblings (henceforth siblings), and to parents and offspring. We now evaluate an alternative model that… Expand
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