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But how does assortative mating account for it? One would then expect at least neutral relationship between fertility and intelligence.
by buboard 8y ago
But how does assortative mating account for it? One would then expect at least neutral relationship between fertility and intelligence.
- User23 8y agoSmart people tend to reproduce with other smart people, but they reproduce an awful lot less. Interestingly, smart people having low fertility is a rather recent phenomenon. Lots of famous scientists came from huge broods.
- buboard 8y agofamous scientists are probably exceptional enough to not be accounted into statistics. The questions is why they breed less.