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danieltillett ◴[02 Nov 15 09:50 UTC] No.10490915[source]▶

I would be very surprised if high intelligence was anything other than the extreme edge of a normal distribution of the human population. For it to be anything other than this it would require people of high intelligence to be a sub-population that did not breed with the rest of humanity.

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1. pippy ◴[02 Nov 15 21:15 UTC] No.10495309[source]▶

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Interesting, but tangently related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Klark_Graham

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Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence