Genes for Intelligence - Back to Square One. Here's a paper - soon to appear in Psychological Science - which says that Most Reported Genetic Associations with General Intelligence Are Probably False Positives The authors tried to replicate published associations between particular genetic variants (SNPs) and IQ (specifically the g factor).
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Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups.