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		snowwrestler 76 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Harold and George Destroy the World That’s not how genetics works. It’s not a simple averaging scheme.

xyzzyz 75 days ago [–]

That’s exactly how it works in the standard additive model of heritability, and we have lots of empirical evidence that heritability of intelligence matches that model very well.

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