georg jetson
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People with mental disabilities can have 'normal' children. Every generation in recent history trends towards a higher IQ than the previous. That alone indicates that intelligence doesn't come solely from intelligence, but has a large genetic and social factor.
This is NOT an example of intelligence NOT coming from intelligence. This is an an example of how intelligence is transferred and what can hinder that transfer. It is still originating from intelligence.
However, one could go much further than that, investigating genomes and seeing that its sequence length encodes more information now than in the past, largely due to mutations, double copy,[/ and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer#Scientific_American_article_.282000.29]horizontal gene transfer. Obviously a large part of that lies in nonfunctional/noncoding DNA, but to imply that an intelligent process is necessary to beget further intelligence? Please, spare me. There is an undeniably huge body of work which shows that assertion to be just plain silly.
At least you've posted something that can be called science. However, it is another example of how intelligence is TRANSFERRED from other intelligence. Notice horizontal gene "transfer".