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jag2594 said:post 109989icecreamlover said:More importantly, there is very robust finding that genetic influences increase with age ( genes become more expressed relative to environment ), which interestingly enough is the opposite one would expect if how a person ended up was mostly due to their environment.
source: https://books.google.com/books?id=IWYdB ... es&f=false
The author of that book is associated with the Pioneer Fund. The Pioneer Fund has been criticized for being a white nationalist group and has ties with eugenics.
Robert Plomin was a key signatory to a statement, which was drafted by Pioneer Fund Grant recipient Linda Gotfredson, defending the science behind The Bell Curve.
http://hgalert.org/topics/behavGenetics ... search.pdf
Robert Plomin is a 'behavioural geneticist' with eugenicist
> leanings, at the London Institute of Psychiatry, and heavily
> into twin studies (like Sir Cyril Burt, for instance).
> <http://www.mankind.org/Man10.Htm$mgiToken=CDA00E128DDD6BC89E>
> He is a recipient of funding from the Pioneer Fund, a fund
> until some years ago, dedicated to the preservation of the
> original 'stock' of settlers from the original 13 colonies.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... eWs2IPXiOE
Interestingly it seems as though those people who promote genetic differences in intelligence and behavior seem to be funded by groups like the Pioneer Fund.
Also the Pioneer Fund has been also funding FAIR. An anti-immigrant group that help draft the legislature of the Arizona immigration laws.
not sure how that's relevant to the data but ok, here's these sources then http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3817005/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2138795
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