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Is expertise under genetic control?

« 15 August 2006 | 23:32 | musings, behavioral genetics | 3 Comments »

Jonah Lehrer has a post over at Frontal Cortex today that follows up on his article in Seed a couple of weeks ago arguing that exceptional abilities are the result of extensive practice rather than genetic predisposition. My own view is that they’re probably not; or at least, I’m not sure the question is a […]