Genetic and environmental contributions to population group differences on the Raven's Progressive Matrices estimated from twins reared together and apart

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1619, 2007, Pages 1773-1777

  Rushton, J Philippe ^a   Bons, Trudy Ann ^a   Vernon, Philip A ^a   Čvorović, Jelena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b SERBIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Behaviour genetics; Cognition; Cross cultural validity; Intelligence; Twins

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETICS; HERITABILITY;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MENTAL CAPACITY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 34548456961     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0461     Document Type: Article

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