- See Also
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Links
- “Estimating the Additive Heritability of Historiometric Eminence in a Super-Pedigree Comprised of 4 Prominent Families”, Woodley et al 2021b
- “Genetics of Intellectual and Personality Traits Associated With Creative Genius: Could Geniuses Be Cosmobian Dragon Kings?”, Johnson & Junior 2014
- “The Mechanism of Emergenesis”, Lykken 2006
- “Giftedness and Genetics: The Emergenic-Epigenetic Model and Its Implications”, Simonton 2005
- “Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity”, Simonton 1999
- “Emergenesis: Genetic Traits That May Not Run in Families § Genius”, Lykken et al 1992 (page 8)
- “Emergenesis: Genetic Traits That May Not Run in Families”, Lykken et al 1992
- “Research With Twins: The Concept of Emergenesis”, Lykken 1982
- Miscellaneous
Some complex human traits like the physical traits of facial appearance or voice, or the psychological traits of leadership or genius appear highly genetically-caused, as shown by relatedness, while still being extremely rare and unpredictable. A proposal for resolving this is emergenesis: such genetic traits are highly nonlinear and non-additive (epistasis or dominance/recessive), depending on many traits simultaneously, and failing otherwise, yielding familialness but rarity/unpredictability—identical twins or clones will be highly similar, but siblings little more similar than the general population.
“Truly exceptional individuals, weak or strong, are, by definition, to be found at the extremes of statistical curves…Since each individual produced by the sexual process contains an unique set of genes, very exceptional combinations of genes are unlikely to appear twice even within the same family. So if genius is to any extent hereditary, it winks on and off through the gene pool in a way that would be difficult to measure or predict. Like Sisyphus rolling his boulder up to the top of the hill only to have it tumble down again, the human gene pool creates hereditary genius in many ways in many places only to have it come apart in the next generation.”
E.O. Wilson, On Human Nature 1978
See Also
Links
“Estimating the Additive Heritability of Historiometric Eminence in a Super-Pedigree Comprised of 4 Prominent Families”, Woodley et al 2021b
“Genetics of Intellectual and Personality Traits Associated With Creative Genius: Could Geniuses Be Cosmobian Dragon Kings?”, Johnson & Junior 2014
“The Mechanism of Emergenesis”, Lykken 2006
“Giftedness and Genetics: The Emergenic-Epigenetic Model and Its Implications”, Simonton 2005
“Giftedness and Genetics: The Emergenic-Epigenetic Model and Its Implications”
“Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity”, Simonton 1999
“Emergenesis: Genetic Traits That May Not Run in Families § Genius”, Lykken et al 1992 (page 8)
“Emergenesis: Genetic Traits That May Not Run in Families § Genius”