Mainstreamers keep making progress: educational attainment variation “likely” caused by ancestry variation in Europe

Lawson, D. J., Davies, N. M., Haworth, S., Ashraf, B., Howe, L., Crawford, A., ... & Timpson, N. J. (2020). Is population structure in the genetic biobank era irrelevant, a…

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No special sex-linked inheritance of cognitive ability/intelligence (except for a few rare disorders)

Some guy on SSC: I remember hearing somewhere that the IQ of the mother is what determines the IQ of the children. Is this accurate? To what extent does the…

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