  The Dualized Standard Model offers a natural place both to Higgs fields and
to fermion generations with Higgs fields appearing as frame vectors in internal
symmetry space and generation appearing as dual colour. If they are assigned
those niches, it follows that there are exactly 3 generations of fermions, and
that at the tree-level, only one generation has a mass (fermion mass hierarchy)
while the CKM matrix is the identity. However, loop corrections lift this
degeneracy giving nonzero CKM mixing and masses to fermions of the two lower
generations. A recent calculation to 1-loop level, with just a few parameters,
yields a very good fit to the empirical CKM matrix and sensible values also to
the lower generation masses. In addition, predictions are obtained, in areas
ranging from low energy flavour-changing neutral current decays to extremely
high energy cosmic rays, which are testable in experiments now being planned.
