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5 - Intelligence: The Ongoing Quest for Its Etiology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 October 2017

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Elena L. Grigorenko  and
Samuel D. Mandelman
Edited by
Susan Bouregy ,
Elena L. Grigorenko ,
Stephen R. Latham  and
Mei Tan
Susan Bouregy
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Elena L. Grigorenko
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Stephen R. Latham
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
Mei Tan
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Houston
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Genetics, Ethics and Education , pp. 107 - 133
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