Creativity and Talent: Etiology of Familial Clustering
Creativity and Talent: Etiology of Familial Clustering
History provides many examples of families in which talents cluster (e.g., playing a musical instrument). This could suggest that genetic factors underlie creativity and specific talents. This chapter presents a large (N=3331) dataset of twins and their parents to illustrate the familial clustering of eight different talents, such as playing music, chess, and sports. The parent-twin design demonstrates that the clustering of talents in families is unlikely to be explained by cultural transmission from one generation to the next, but is more likely to be due to genetic transmission.
Keywords: Creativity, Talent, Twin, Parent, Familial clustering
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