The nature of intelligence

This exciting book features papers and discussion contributions from leading behaviour geneticists, evolutionary psychologists and experts on intelligence that explore the differences and the tensions between these two approaches. The nature of g or general intelligence is discussed in detail, as is the issue of heritability of intelligence. The alternative approaches emphasizing domain-specific intelligences are also explored, alongside wide-ranging discussions on a broad range of issues such as the biological basis for intelligence, animal models and changes in IQ scores over time.

Contents

• Introduction
  
• Intelligence: success and fitness
  
• The g factor: psychometrics and biology
  
• Psychometric intelligence differences and brain function
  
• The g factor in non-human animals
  
• Natural selection, mental modules and intelligence
  
• g and the one-many problem: is one enough?
  
• General intelligence and the definition of phenotypes
  
• Is there a g factor for fitness'
  
• How can psychological adaptations be heritable?
  
• Social complexity and social intelligence
  
• IQ gains, WISC subtests and fluid g: g theory and the relevance of Spearman's hypothesis to race
  
• Mutation, selection and the heritability of complex traits
  
• The quantitative and molecular genetics of human intelligence
  
• Sexual selection for indicators of intelligence
  
• Final general discussion
  
• Michael Rutter