Smart people have pretty mums

Conjecture:

• Smart people have pretty mothers.

Axioms:

• Men are attracted to beautiful women. (It is up to you to define what "beautiful" means.)

• Smart people survive better.

Informal and Un-rigorous Sketch of Proof:

• From the first axiom, men have a tendency to like, and attempt to marry, beautiful women. From the second axiom, human race should get "smarter" (or "fitter" in scientific terms) over generations. On average, smarter men would have better chance of success in achieving what they would like to achieve, including marrying beautiful women. Thus, as the human race evolves over time, beautiful women would more likely be married to smarter men. So, offspring of smart people are more likely to be delivered by beautiful women. Q.E.D.

September 2009