This monograph examines education from the biological perspective of genetics, brain science, and evolutionary theory, as opposed to pedagogy and education science as the traditional humanities. The fact that there are genetic differences in all abilities tends to be viewed as pessimistic, but the fact that there are people who are genetically superior in any area of performance creates a desire to learn from them. Genetic individual differences are the source of education. The similarities in life histories of identical twins show the totality of the influence of genes on life, and criticize the conventional wisdom that it is the interaction between heredity and the environment. Significance of the fact that gene transfer is random is suggested. By analyzing a huge amount of DNA data, it has become possible to calculate a polygenic score that can explain an individual's educational year as an index of intelligence. This suggests that we have entered a new era where genes can predict life. Together with the recent theory that the brain is a predictive device, a new vision of evolutionary science of education is presented.

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