ABSTRACT
The new molecular genetics bid fair to actually identify some of the genes responsible for the high heritability of intelligence. It should be clear even to the meanest intelligence that a debate over nature or nurture must be quite pointless; to produce anything, nature and nurture must co-operate. According to Francis Galton, "There is no escape from the conclusion that nature prevails enormously over nurture when the differences of nurture do not exceed what is commonly to be found among persons of the same rank in the same country." No psychologist, geneticist, or biologist has ever asserted that nature was all, and nurture played no part, even Galton's somewhat extreme statement merely asserts that nature is more important than nurture. Galton's belief was based on observed similarities in intellectual achievement between different members of a family; his particular interest being members of the most eminent families.
