General intelligence, disease heritability, and health: A preliminary test

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-85

  Kanazawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancers; Cognitive epidemiology; Evolutionary novelty theory; Heritabilities; Savanna IQ interaction hypothesis; System integrity theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906063884     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.028     Document Type: Article

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