How Mighty Are the Mitochondria in Causing Individual Differences in Intelligence?—Some Questions for David Geary
1. Correlational Nature of This and Other Biologically-Based Models
2. Individual Versus Age-Related Differences in Intelligence
3. The Circular Model
4. The Focus on g for Understanding Intelligence
Conflicts of Interest
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