Models of spouse similarity: applications to fluid ability measured in twins and their spouses.

doi:10.1007/BF02359886

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Models of spouse similarity: applications to fluid ability measured in twins and their spouses.

Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 1996

Reynolds C A, Baker L A, Pedersen N L

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Genetic influences have consistently been reported to be the principal explanation for resemblance among relatives for intelligence, with shared environmental effects playing a much smaller role. However, crucial to understanding the nature of environmental influences are the mechanisms of assort...

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Adult
Aged
Aptitude
Female
Humans
Intelligence
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Genetic
Pedigree
Phenotype
Social Environment
Spouses
Twins
Twins, Dizygotic
Twins, Monozygotic

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