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From: btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko)
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Subject: Is intelligence linked to sex genes at all?
Summary: Do intelligent mothers have intelligent daughters? etc.
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Work on this question must be fairly common knowledge to some people in
genetics.  Is intelligence linked to the sex genes at all?  In other words,
is an intelligent mother more likely to have an intelligent daughter than
an intelligent son, and vica versa for an intelligent father?
Please don't bother me too much about specific genetics definitions of the
meaning of "linked", etc.
Also, I realize that some people will want some defintion of what I mean
by "intelligence".  I guess I could mean any of several things:  
1) the usual definition by IQ scores or scores on "objective" academic tests
such as SAT's, GRE's, etc., 2) a more general definition perhaps used by
a researcher in terms of measures of survival and reproductive success,
or 3) some other reasonable and interesting definition and measure.
Likely there have been many relevant breeding experiments with animals?
(PS:  I hope that matters of nature versus nurture are not too distracting.)




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Bradley T. Banko
Dept of Physics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu