Friday, December 5, 2008

Smarter guys have better sperm

A team from the Institute of Psychiatry analyzed data from former US soldiers who served during the Vietnam war era and found that those who performed better on intelligence tests tended to have more mobile sperm, concluding if tiny mutations impair intelligence, they might also harm other characteristics, such as sperm quality. Scientist thought originally lifestyle had a larger effect on sperm effectiveness.

It doesn't surprise me a bunch of science nerds are going to claim that the more intelligent soldiers had more mobile sperm. A little of a catch-22 for women in choosing men.

1 comment:

cehurley said...

I don't know why they needed to do an experiment on this. It seems like this should be common sense.