Terman and his collaborators followed the participants, nicknamed “Termites,” for their lifetimes and mapped their successes in a series of reports, Genetic Studies of Genius. The group ...

In the most comprehensive global analysis of genetic diversity ever undertaken, an international team of scientists has found ...

An international team of researchers has turned to genetic science to probe the roots of musical genius, using none other than Ludwig van Beethoven as a case study. Nearly two centuries after the ...

Charles Davenport, a chicken breeder and agriculturalist, was one of the first American scientists to embrace Mendelian genetics. Through his studies ... Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry into Its ...

He was a genius, but researchers at Vanderbilt ... to musicality – by using sequences from a 2023 study in which the composer’s genetic material was extracted from strands of his hair.

The team of scientists used innovations in genetic analysis to gain new insights from studies carried out decades ago. Creating a common measurement scale, they were able to make comparisons ...