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Direct linkRichardson, Ken; Norgate, Sarah H. – Human Development, 2006
The pattern of parent-child correlations in adoption studies has long been interpreted to suggest substantial additive genetic variance underlying variance in IQ. The studies have frequently been criticized on methodological grounds, but those criticisms have not reflected recent perspectives in genetics and developmental theory. Here we apply…
Descriptors: Criticism, Intelligence Quotient, Genetics, Adoption
