Marilyn Savant
In c.1985, Savant, who likes to claim linage from Ernst Mach, on the Joe Franklyn show, stated her view that “intelligence is inherited” and that “it has to be inherited”. (Ѻ) This so-called “Galton intelligence model”, as was promoted by Francis Galton (Hereditary Genius, 1869), naturally enough, is incorrect. Studies of genius (e.g. bachelorhood and genius) show that the more of a genius a genius becomes, e.g. as gauged by ranking on the top 500 geniuses scale, the less likely the genius is to reproduce; moreover the less likely are their offspring to reproduce (e.g. Goethe genealogy). The inherited intelligence model, in fact, was an idea ridiculed by Charles Darwin:
“You have made a convert of an opponent in one sense [of your Hereditary Genius], for I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect, only in zeal and hard work.”
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Yes, intelligence is inherited to about 3/4, if not 80 per-cent. Height, too, is inherited, no one would dispute this.
Also, Darwin is irrelevant, he has been shown to be false by Vox Day, who destroyed evolution by natural selection in his "The Mathematics of Evolution" series, of which two books are already out:
Probability Zero: The Mathematical Impossibility of Evolution
The Frozen Gene: The End of Human Evolution