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University Daily Kansan, October 3, 1980
High IQ reproduction unlikely with eugenics
By ROSE SIMMONS
Staff Reporter
Women who impregnate themselves with the sperm of Nobel Prize winners are not likely to have children who will follow their parents' course. Glenn Wolfe, KU professor of physiology and cellular biology.
Several Nobel Prize winners, in hopes of passing on their genius, have contributed to a sperm bank in California. The bank accepts applications for impregnation from only the most intelligent women. Selected applicants choose according to donor characteristics, and are sent a vial of sperm for self-imprinting.
Wolfe said the mating of two above-average intelligent people increased rather than decreased the number of children she could be of above-average intelligence.
The intelligence of children of above-average parents tend to regress toward the mean of average people, the general population, he said.
BUT JOHN WEIR, KU professor of physiology and cellular biology, said that a smarter sub-population could, in theory, be developed if intelligence were the sole criteria used for mating. He said, however, that consideration must be given to whether the other characteristics of an intelligent person were desirable to pass on.
science of genetics to further the study of eugenics," he said.
"Scientists are leery of using the
EUGENICISTS THINK that the population has undergone a decline in intelligence because people who are of average or below-average intelligence are more children than people who are of above-average intelligence, he said.
Studies have shown, however, that the average intelligence quotient for the population has gone up, he said.
Intelligence, Weir and Wolfe agree, is determined partly by heredity, but the environment significantly influences intelligence, also.
Environment is the dominant factor in intelligence, said Analee Beisecker, KU sociology lecturer on health and medicine. She said that
the environment in which a child was raised either nurtured or hindered the intelligence that was inherited.
"Children with half their genes from Nobel Prize winners might become rebellious if their mothers demand too much from them and pretend to be less intelligent than they really are," she said.
THE CHILDREN of Nobel Prize winners, she said, will probably be under a lot of stress to display their brilliance. But, she said, a lot of smart people never made contributions to society.
Wolfe said he did not expect many women to choose to artificially insinulate themselves to get intelligent children.
An in-depth look at one of the most frightening and controversial cases of alleged demonic hauntings at a house in Amityville, N.Y., will be presented in a slide show and lecture Tuesday night, Oct. 7 in the Kansas Union.
Psychic investigators to speak on 'horror' of Amitvville house
Ed and Lorraine Warren, psych investigators, will discuss their findings at the house that was the subject of the book and the book "The Amityville Horror."
The Warrens initially began as professional touring artists, but because of what they have described as continued realism and natural, they became pavilion investigators.
ED WARREN said that as a young child, he had several experiences in a museum.
Lorraine Warren said she was clairvoyant as a child. Clairvoyance is the ability to make sense out of the natural range of the human mind.
"The Amityville Horror," a recent best seller, brought to life one's 28-day period of terror experience by George Lathz Mary Latz and their three children.
Every member of the house said they witnessed frightening manifestations of one sort or another, such as demonic faces appearing in the dead of the night, doors tears away from hinges and windows being thrown open.
On Jan. 14, 1976, the Lutz's fled their home, vowing to never return.
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