Particularly with colleges, if you're related to someone who went to that college, it somehow guarantees an intelligence level. However, I don't believe it works that way. There are studies shown that kids with intelligent parents are more likely to be intelligent themselves, but how much is actual intelligence, and how much is personality or pressure within the family. Is it really possible for intelligence to be passed down genetically? The genetic information to create a brain is definitely passed down, but it's disputable as to whether the intelligence level is. Everyone thinks differently, how could it be possible to transfer a thinking process, or a level of thinking to offspring. That would be crazy. How could brain functions become genetically passed down.
This ties back again to the fact that we as humans know so little about the brain. Maybe we do pass down intelligence, but we have yet to access the part of the brain that would determine that.
Who knows. Go Science Go!
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