Family background and genius.

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OBJECTIVE: It is widely believed among professionals and laity that genius is born and not made. However, the early and still-influential statistical studies of Frances Galton on the inheritance of genius have neither been supported nor definitively refuted. This study empirically assesses the hereditary transmission hypothesis. METHODS: We collected family background data on 50 Nobel Prize laureates in...

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