Consider also that until the 20th century around half of the people born died before adulthood and around a quarter did so before the age of one [0]. Those geni

Consider also that until the 20th century around half of the people born died before adulthood and around a quarter did so before the age of one [0]. Those geniuses didn't even get the chance to be the smartest uneducated subsistence farmer in the fiefdom, the most intelligent 15 year old to bleed out after childbirth, or the brainiest starving war refugee. [0] https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality-in-the-past