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Observing that many geniuses also had eminent relatives, he concluded that genius was hereditary. Strikingly, he did not seriously consider that the family clusters might indicate the importance of connections, wealth, or family culture, nor did he think the absence of women from his list was due to a lack of opportunity.

But they had a strange and disturbing effect on me, and I had a hard time shaking off their verdict. This vulnerability afflicts many of the most able, high-achieving females.

quiet—and women are cautious.

Ben-Nun Bloom indicates that popular measures of values and morality have a common genetic basis.

What is it about our Chameleon group that gives them such a powerful need to belong that they will relentlessly pursue complex and exhausting (and often not very successful) camouflaging tactics, to the detriment of their own mental and physical health? Is there some kind of brain process, innate or acquired, that is driving them? Given so many of

Practice and training are also visible, and they produce visible results. You would think that this would dispel the myth of the natural.

the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude. Meanwhile the indefiniteness remains, and the limits of variation are really much w

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