Where does the myth of a gene for things like intelligence come from?

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Where does the myth of a gene for things like intelligence come from?
Source: The Guardian
Thursday 9th September, 2010

There's a widespread belief that individual genes determine traits such as intelligence, optimism, obesity and dyslexia.

But genetics rarely works that way ...

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