Laughing all the way to the bank (genetically blessed bank that is)

This is worth a laugh and a half. Poor 'ugly' saps just when they thought that their lives couldn't get any worse this happens. The latest article in the Intelligence claims that one thing us average people have leveraged our existence on - our seeming intellectual superiority over pretty people (really but who uses ''hyperbolically happy'' in a sentence?).  It should stand that the conclusions of the study are drawn from the fact traits like intelligence and physical attractiveness are considered highly heritable.

The study indicated attractive men have IQs that are 13.6 points above the average, while beautiful women are 11.4 points higher than average.

To all the pretty people out there: we want you

Since intelligent men are more inclined to achieve more success, they are "more likely to marry beautiful women," Kanazawa said. "Given that both intelligence and physical attractiveness are highly heritable, there should be a positive correlation between intelligence and physical attractiveness in the children's generation."

So I guess if you have a mom like this; and a dad like this; you could get a kid like this.  The fate of the world is yet again sealed in the hands of the (naturally) pretty people - take heart those of you artificially enhanced. I personally subscribe to a more pragmatic approach whereby such traits are begot through better economic and social opportunities.  But if all MDs are as hot (and for each other) and smart as they are in Grey's Anatomy then maybe Kanazawa was onto something.