Saturday, March 14, 2009

Environmental impacts on human intelligence

Guest Column: Can We Increase Our Intelligence? - Olivia Judson Blog - NYTimes.com

It used to be believed that people had a level of general intelligence with which they were born that was unaffected by environment and stayed the same, more or less, throughout life. But now it’s known that environmental influences are large enough to have considerable effects on intelligence, perhaps even during your own lifetime.



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