Support for the environmentalist viewpoint of intelligence comes from
a. the finding that the environment accounts for 70 to 80 percent of intelligence.
b. studies demonstrating greater similarity between a child's intelligence and their biological, rather than their adoptive, parents.
c. studies showing that children reared by the same mother resemble her IQ to the same degree, whether or not they share her genes.
d. studies showing that test tube baby twins have IQs more similar to the surrogate mother than to the natural mother.
ANSWER: c
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