你可以说自己遗传了家族的鼻子,没人会反对。但是要说智力也会遗传,人们会不以为然。如果你说家族的遗传决定了你的智力高低,你很可能会被嗤之以鼻。然而,这正是美国和芬兰的科学家最近得出的结论:基因在很大程度上影响着我们大脑某些部分的生长,而受基因影响最大的那部分恰好支配着我们的认知能力,也就是说,智商是遗传的。 You can say that you inherit the family’s nose, no one will object. But to say that intelligence will be inherited, people will not agree. If you say the heredity of the family determines your level of intelligence, you may be sniffed. However, this is exactly the conclusion recently drawn by scientists in the United States and Finland: genes largely affect the growth of certain parts of our brain, and the part most affected by the gene precisely overwhelms our cognitive ability. That is, IQ is genetic.