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On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 11:47 AM, Lucio de Souza Coelho

> On Friday 19 September 2003 00:28, Ryan Z wrote:
> (...)
>> Generally speaking (and we all know how we love to
>> talk generalities), the richer people become, the less
>> they reproduce. So if intelligence is related to
>> wealth, then as the intelligent become wealthier,
>> their numbers will dimish and gradually be overtaken
>> by the dumber masses.
>
> Uh... I think that this claim that "richer people have fewer children"
> is
> strongly dependent on the civilization that you're talking about,
> isn't it?
>
> For instance, in many Islamic countries richer man may have *more*
> children
> because they usually have a zillion wifes and concubines.
>

I agree. I saw an interesting little factoid some time ago, apparently
something like 10% of all the men in Asia are decendent from Gingis
Khan (sp). He was the richest man of his culture, had hundreds of
children, and many of his sons had hundreds of children.

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