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For IQ, genes still matter more than family environment

Another look at the evidence.

Dec 06, 2025
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Written by Noah Carl.

Sasha Gusev is a Harvard geneticist who believes the heritability of IQ and many other traits has been substantially overestimated. Not only that, he says IQ “appears to be highly culturally and environmentally dependent”.

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