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This book means very well, but a) it actually explains things very badly, despite trying very hard, and b) fails to make a good case for taking DNA into account in trying to create a more equal society.

I am completely glazing over with this book. We're 100 pages in, and she's overcomplicatedly explained genome-wide association studies via an analogy that takes more time to lay out than it does to just explain GWAS on its own terms, and otherwise she's mostly just said: intelligence is influenced by genetics, the differences between individuals can be large, the differences between ancestral groups are likely not due to variations in the same...

This one is gonna have to be a slow read for me, because I can feel myself glazing over at times, but I do really want to read it.

To be clear: the author fully believes that intelligence is a heritable trait (along with perhaps other stuff related to success), and that we should take it into account in order to make society equitable (NOT that some people are more deserving than others as a result).