[ExI] IQ and beauty

[PJ Manney]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 4:54 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Who has more social mobility than pretty/beautiful women?  So it makes
> sense that the men that get them are more wealthy, powerful, hence more
> intelligent.
>
> And so their children tend, at least. towards being better looking and
> more intelligent.
>

When it comes to intelligence, it's the mother's genes that count in boys.
They've only got one X chromosome which expresses intelligence. That's why
you sometimes see the sons of the wealthy and powerful are as dumb as a
sack of hammers, if dear old dad only married for beauty.

PJ
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