Is intelligence the result of natural selection, genetics, or individual characteristics?
2007-02-23 10:36:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Both. Part of it is genetics, but a larger part is the drive you have, and the enviorment you are raised in. If you are pushed to excel then you will try harder to learn, and so become smarter. It starts very young. Only a few months. Babies with more chance to explore and more to stimulate them wind up being more driven, and so usually it effects their intelligence.
2007-02-23 10:40:43 · answer #1 · answered by anamaradancer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a condition of their surroundings. All normal children begin with the same ability to learn as any other. It depends on the resources that are open to them how they learn. If in an area that has no formal education, obvioulsy they have a much lower chance of learning say algebra than someone who was able to afford say Private school. Just as beliefs, customs, tradition are learned, so is knowledge which leads to intellegence.
The Syko Ward
2007-02-23 18:43:30 · answer #2 · answered by The Syko Ward 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some races and cultures have "traditions" of stimulating their minds. The Chinese for example are extremely academic. It's tradition mostly though, and it gets passed down generations. You can start kids right though, and the "tradition" of your own. So I say all three of them have a role, but mostly hard work goes into it. There isn't a naturally smart person, people just work hard.
2007-02-23 18:42:26 · answer #3 · answered by Bananamerican 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People Are Born Ignorant They Must Work Had to Stay That Way
2007-02-23 18:47:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our spirits are spiritually smart, we have to learn through life experiences to grow and gain earthly smarts.
The most intelligent beings are those who learn the oracles of God.
2007-02-23 18:45:32 · answer #5 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that a question people have wondered for years.
the problem is that it hard to find an answer giving the fact that people with the same genes (say siblings) will more likely be raised in the same household.
So one can't really say if it's one's genes or they way that they where raised that infects intelligence.
2007-02-23 18:41:00 · answer #6 · answered by goldenbrowngod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can be all it all starts in the mothers womb and what she teaches you when you grow up.
2007-02-23 18:40:00 · answer #7 · answered by Honey boo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋