What Does Prodigious Talent Is Heredity?

Genes are constructed of genetic material that are handed down to generations, and hence are one of the most fundamental building blocks of an individual; making us ‘us’. Since genes are handed down from the mother and father to the offspring, genes allow the individual to inherit and receive certain traits from parents.
More accurately, genes can be thought of as learning devices that predispose us to acquire certain information in the environment, and ignore other aspects of our world. Viewed in this way, genes are fundamentally active seekers of knowledge as they attempt to find the best fit to their genome. Therefore, genes exert their influences on the development of talent through their control of motivations, preferences, and emotional
According to a study published by the Journal of Medical Genetics from the University of Helsinki, they tested 224 people related to professional or keen amateur musicians and all the subjects were asked to differentiate between different note pitches and durations. The results revealed that an astounding 50% of musical aptitude was heredity. An excellent and classical example related to this case is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was a musical prodigy who showed interest in the musical field at the young age of 3. Mozart’s talent was not entirely due to nurture but nature. This can be proven by St Thomas’s Hospital in London’s 2001 study of more than 500 twins that revealed 80 per cent of pitch deafness was related to genes rather than environmental
However, there are a few points to take into account when you are considering the intelligence of exceptionally intelligent people. Einstein’s children, also have a mother, and therefore inherited their IQs from her as well. Mileva Marić, Einstein's wife, was a woman with a ‘decently smart’ mind as she contributed to some of Einstein's work. However assuming she was less smart than Einstein, that would have been a factor driving the children's IQs down. Another point that must be considered is that Einstein’s family in particular was prone to health problems. Out of Einstein’s three children, Hans Albert Einstein survived and was the only child of who didn’t develop a health problem like the rest of his siblings. Lieserl died in infancy while Eduard who was a promising medicine student started developing schizophrenia. However Hans Albert Einstein was a brilliant scientist. He was a professor of hydraulic engineering at UC Berkeley and the world's foremost expert on sediment transport. Even though his achievements did not live up to his father’s, his achievements are still impressive, and that labels him as a very intelligent person. This can be explained with a concept called ‘regression towards the mean,’ which means if both your parents are exceptional in a certain respect, you will probably be exceptional in that respect as well