Researchers Try To Identify the Intelligence Gene 254
An anonymous reader writes "The world's largest brain study to date, with a team of more than 200 scientists from 100 institutions worldwide collaborated to map the human genes that boost or sabotage the brain's resistance to a variety of mental illnesses and Alzheimer's disease. The study also uncovered new genes that may explain individual differences in brain size and intelligence. From the article: 'Following a brain study on an unprecedented scale, an international collaboration has now managed to tease out a single gene that does have a measurable effect on intelligence. But the effect – although measurable – is small: the gene alters IQ by just 1.29 points. According to some researchers, that essentially proves that intelligence relies on the action of a multitude of genes after all.'"
Uhh....really? (Score:5, Funny)
'According to some researchers, that essentially proves that intelligence relies on the action of a multitude of genes after all.'"
Apparently, those researchers don't have that gene.
Re:The downside genetic engineering (Score:2, Funny)
GATTACA is coming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca
how can this be (Score:2, Funny)
But but but, I've been told by my superiors that intelligence is a social construct devised by the white man to keep down the proletariat, and has no biological basis whatsoever.
Re:Uhh....really? (Score:5, Funny)
If only humans had simpler and less powerful brains. Then we might be able to figure out how they work!
Oh... wait....
Re:The downside genetic engineering (Score:5, Funny)
We need to, while we're at it, identify a gene that predisposes people to keep off my lawn.
Re:They wasted money on that? (Score:4, Funny)