Intelligence from mother; emotions from father? (introvert, generation, parent, people)

[Angorlee]

I once read somewhere that we inherit our brains from our mother and are emotional makeup from our father. Any ideas on that?

[DubbleT]

Doubt it, my kids are polar opposites of each other. My son is easy, outgoing, people oriented, and interested in fashion and 'doing well', like his father. My daughter is a stubborn, opinionated introvert who doesn't like social situations and has little interest in acquiring the all the little nice things in life, she's happy with the basics, more like me.
Both are intelligent but I couldn't say for sure how much is from me and how much from their dad. I have the book smarts, but he has the street smarts and the 'people smarts'

[Spuggy]

Not seen any evidence to support that and it certainly isn’t true with anyone in our family history.

[Nov3]

No. And no.
Mom was intelligent. I am not.
Bio dad had zero emoting skills. I have a plenty.
So there goes that theory...

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by Angorlee

I once read somewhere that we inherit our brains from our mother and are emotional makeup from our father. Any ideas on that?

Absolutely not. Not generalizable. The genetic soup is a lottery. You never know how it'll manifest in a child, not to mention--comparing one sibling with another. They can be opposites, in that respect. Also, having intelligence doesn't necessarily guarantee a productive life or academic success, if the foundation for disciplined study and work doesn't get laid early on, or if it gets short-circuited by early trauma or a chaotic family environment.

[silibran]

A geneticist who used to write a blog I read for awhile posted that kids’ genes were made up of all four grandparents’ genes. So, accirding to him, we all have four distinct people that we draw our genes from.

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by Angorlee

I once read somewhere that we inherit our brains from our mother and are emotional makeup from our father. Any ideas on that?

An idea? That it just isn't true. My entire family is proof of that.

[kokonutty]

Originally Posted by Angorlee

I once read somewhere that we inherit our brains from our mother and are emotional makeup from our father. Any ideas on that?

Somebody with a smart mother thought they could get away with putting that on the internet. It didn't work.

[ClaraC]

I thought it was the opposite. Emotion from the mother, intelligence from the father?

Certainly, language and grammar and accent from the mother. If your mother speaks correctly, so do you. Without even having to think. You just know correct language if you have a mother who knows grammar.

[CraigCreek]

Ancestors prior to parents and even prior to grandparents can also contribute. A second cousin and I inherited our g-grandmother's distinctive eye color, yet no one in the intervening generations appears to have had her eyes.