Chapter 6 - Intelligence
Ridley introduces the chapter by first mentioning that "GENES ARE NOT THERE TO CAUSE DISEASES" and then eventually talking about how a gene for intelligence has been found. Robert Plomin has been researching, and found a group of gifted teenagers. It was proven that the smarter teenagers have a different DNA sequence than a normal teenager. There are two sides on where intelligence comes from, either nature or nurture. I go on the nature side because i believe that people are born with intelligence inside them, they grow up to learn how to use intelligence, but they are born with it. The intelligence gene they found is very big, it contains 7,473 in total and the sense-containing message spreads over 98,000 letters of the genome.
Citation:
Ridley, Matt. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Print.
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