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ARTICLE IN PRESS INTELL-00490; No of Pages 6 Intelligence xxx (2008) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Intelligence journal homepage: Intelligence and semen quality are positively correlated Rosalind Arden a,⁎, Linda S. Gottfredson b, Geoffrey Miller c, Arand Pierce d a Social, Genetic, Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, London SE5 8AF, United Kingdom b School of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA c Psychology Department, Logan Hall 160, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2220 Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA d Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, MSCO8 4640, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Human cognitive abilities inter-correlate to form a positive matrix, from which a large first Received 3 July 2008 factor, called ‘Spearmans g ’ or general intelligence, can be extracted. General intelligence itself Revised 10 September 2008 is correlated with many important health outcomes including cardio-vascular function and Accepted 1 November 2008 longevity. However, the important evolutionary question of whether intelligence is a fitness- Available online xxxx related trait has not been tested directly, let alone answered. If the correlations among cognitive abilitie