In the latest issue of Scientific American, I have a feature on the biology of intelligence. (Read it online at sciam.com or carlzimmer.com) I’ve been fascinated by the subject for a long time, and I decided recently that the time was right to put together an article.

What’s the news? That there is no news.

Allow me to explain…

A lot of experts on intelligence were very busy late last year trying to clear up some misconceptions about the nature of intelligence in the wake of Nobelist James Watson’s remarks about race and IQ. (The best example I came across at the time was an hour-long discussion that aired in December 2007 on the show On Point.