Height and intelligence in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921: a longitudinal study.

摘要

The relationship between height and intelligence has long been subject to investigation [1-5]. Life-long levels for both height and intelligence. emerge during childhood development. Although both height and IQ are highly heritable with demonstrable genetic associations [6, 7], distinct environmental contributions are also evident [8, 9]. Early studies considered both height and IQ to be outcomes of social disadvantage in [10]; however, the relationship between height and IQ in childhood is not fully explained by shared effects of social class or putative in utero programming [11]. Height in middle age predicts cognitive performance in old age [12] when not controlled for the direct influence of childhood IQ on later life cognition [13].