Catherine (Rina) Bliss, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Photo: Cyndi Shattuck Photography
Dr Rina Bliss' new book examines the nature of intelligence and its elasticity.
In Rethinking Intelligence - A Radical New Understanding of Our Human Potential, Rina challenges the conventional wisdom that intelligence is inherited.
Here she considers how intelligence can shrink or grow - in relation to environmental factors like stress and diet, which can affect our potential to be brainier.
She also questions the merit of measuring intelligence with IQ tests.
And, with AI the hot topic at the moment, we'll also find out why she thinks human intelligence will always outsmart computational intelligence.
Rina Bliss is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University in New Jersey. She tells Kathryn she has spent decades researching mistaken assumptions about genetics and intelligence.
