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In the genes, but which ones?
For decades, scientists have understood that there is a genetic component to intelligence, but a new Harvard study has found both that most of the genes thought to be linked to the trait are probably not in fact related to it, and identifying intelligence’s specific genetic roots may still be a long way off. In the genes, but which ones? Studies that linked specific genes to intelligence were largely wrong, experts say.