The implications of intelligence are more touchy. Outside of professional athletes, being good at soccer is not much more important than having blue eyes. Int

The implications of intelligence are more touchy. Outside of professional athletes, being good at soccer is not much more important than having blue eyes. Intelligence, on the other hand, is an underpinning of modern life. The only reason we acknowledge the heritability of wealth, another underpinning, is because it is by far too obvious to deny. (Quite the reversal from the origin of the species!)