{"id":96199,"date":"2019-09-13T15:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/more-than-500-intelligence-genes-discovered"},"modified":"2019-09-13T15:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T22:03:07","slug":"more-than-500-intelligence-genes-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/more-than-500-intelligence-genes-discovered","title":{"rendered":"More than 500 Intelligence Genes Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZwMfwsguTw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Are humans born with \u201cintelligence\u201d genes, or is human intelligence determined by environmental factors, such as economic status or easy access to education?<\/p>\n<p>When a team of researchers set out to answer this question, they discovered that more than 500 genes were associated with intelligence. The results, published in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41380-017-0001-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature Genetics<\/a>, indicate that intelligence is much more complex than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence, as defined by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>, is the ability to learn new information and apply it to different situations. Despite this simple definition, many elements of intelligence are difficult to nail down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are humans born with \u201cintelligence\u201d genes, or is human intelligence determined by environmental factors, such as economic status or easy access to education? When a team of researchers set out to answer this question, they discovered that more than 500 genes were associated with intelligence. The results, published in Nature Genetics, indicate that intelligence is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,32,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}