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Re:Childhood intelligence in relation to major causes of dea... by bobcostas55 on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:29AM (#16458837)
>The problem is higher IQ mean means a healthier lifestyle, which is what protects against cancer, not genes that give rise to high IQ itself.

This is not the case, see _The association between intelligence and lifespan is mostly genetic_ (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4795559/). The common factor is almost certainly mutational load.

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