duhhhhh.... IQ

Just as a follow-up to the discussion with Robert Walker concerning
physical vs. societal evolutionary development... there was an
interesting article in the New York Times Today (Dec. 20) that
suggests that I.Q. in general (pitch recognition being a special
subset of this, of course) is rather malleable and that the actual
BRAIN CHANGES in response to positive environmental situations...

This would mean, of course, that it is possible that some Asians who
have developed in societies where pitch-height of language is a
requisite could actually have different BRAINS than others reared in
different circumstances...

The quote: (Richard Rothstein, Education section)

"The National Academy of Sciences report sees the brain as more
plastic than "hard wired." The manner of nurturing can raise or
lower the limits of I.Q. This makes conditions in which children are
reared, from the prenatal stage to adolescence, more crucial because
(as with height) an interaction of genes and environment, not genes
alone, produces potential as well as developed intelligence...."

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Joseph Pehrson