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Science 13 December 1963:
Vol. 142. no. 3598, pp. 1477 - 1479
DOI: 10.1126/science.142.3598.1477
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Genetics and Intelligence: A Review

L. Erlenmeyer-Kimling 1 and Lissy F. Jarvik 1

1 Department of Medical Genetics, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, New York 32

A survey of the literature of the past 50 years reveals remarkable consistency in the accumulated data relating mental functioning to genetic potentials. Intragroup resemblance in intellectual abilities increases in proportion to the degree genetic relationship.


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