Brain Drain and Gain
Weiss in a 2009 study argues that for many nations the effect of fertility on IQ is currently overshadowed by the effects of selective immigration and emigration of groups with varying average IQs (brain drain and brain gain).
Read more about this topic: Fertility And Intelligence
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“In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought”
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“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”
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