title: Intelligence.
abstract: Some people are cleverer than others. I think it would be a good thing if more biologists began with that observation as the starting point for their research. Why? Because it is a prominent and consistent way in which people differ from each other; because the measurements we make of people's cleverness produce scores that are correlated with important life outcomes; because it is interesting to discover the mechanisms that produce these individual differences; and because understanding these mechanisms might help to ameliorate those states in which cognitive function is low or declining.
authors: Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK. i.deary@ed.ac.uk
authors: Ian J
authors: IJ
authors: Deary
mesh_terms: D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007360:Intelligence; D010641:Phenotype; D011584:Psychology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors