The message from geneticists to intellectuals and policy-makers is this: choose the society you want to promote then prepare to live with its heritabilities. Never favour the reverse, of promoting social policies to change heritabilities. For best results, cultivate individuals, not groups.
– p.156, Consilience, E.O. Wilson
HR and Genes
As serendipity would have it, there’s a discussion over at AOK being hosted by Dave Ulrich. In it Dave and Jack Ring came up with this:”… the key point … “Once we know the capabilities required, we can begin to…