Talent family
The concept of the talent family was coined by Gottfried Benn . It describes the high probability that geniuses are more likely to be related to one another than to other people.
Benn analyzes the status of artistic work as an exception from a racial perspective . Benn describes the importance of families of geniuses that regularly produce great talent, and the "bred" in those families.
Francis Galton's similar heredity theory put the emerging English middle class and their belief in the feasibility of success into their biological barriers.
literature
- Gottfried Benn: The problem of genius , Wiesbaden 1951
- Francis Galton: Hereditary Genius. An Inquiry into its Laws and Consequences , London 1869