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How intelligence changes with age

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An analysis of common genetic variants shows that hereditary factors that influence intelligence in childhood also affect it in old age. Such work could signal the end of the nature–nurture controversy. See Letter p.212

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  1. Robert Plomin is at King's College London, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London SE5 8AF, UK.,

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Plomin, R. How intelligence changes with age. Nature 482, 165–166 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/482165a

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