How fragile is our intellect? Estimating losses in general intelligence due to both selection and mutation accumulation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 75, Issue , 2015, Pages 80-84

  Woodley of Menie, Michael A ^a,b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Ulster Institute for Social Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dysgenics; Mutation accumulation; Selection; Validity generalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911882185     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2014.10.047     Document Type: Article

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