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Heredity has been thought of as the prime force in the development of our capabilities. Similarly, the environment has been claimed as the fertile ground for the development of our capabilities. Then there is the rather prosaic consideration that we are products of both heredity and environment.
In The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould (1981) makes the argument that if genetically identical seeds are planted in high-quality soil versus barren soil, the difference in growth will be notable even though the hereditary component that controls growth is identical.

In a paragraph of six sentences, answer the following: If intelligence is highly heritable, how could it be that the environment is crucial in its expression? To put the issue of intelligence into perspective, what exactly constitutes intelligence?
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