> Smart people became priests and monks, who, while not completely celibate in the real world, still had much lower rates of reproduction. Actually that's not

> Smart people became priests and monks, who, while not completely celibate in the real world, still had much lower rates of reproduction. Actually that's not the case. Popes and priests used to have orgies and sex parties; the reason to go into the clergy was for money and power. They had a racket going, collecting money from poor villagers; joining up was how you cashed in. They were FAR from celibate. http://www.cracked.com/article_15648_five-biggest-badass-popes.html http://www.cracked.com/article_15648_five-biggest-badass-pop... Similar history for Dalai Lamas; they used to go to war, have illegitimate offspring, etc. In outlying areas where there wasn't much power to be had, you joined up with the local monks/priests if you didn't have other job skills and thus no way to support a wife/family, so it wasn't as if the most promising males were all taking themselves out of the gene pool or anything close to it. And you don't need a 1:1 ratio of fathers to mothers; a single smart, powerful male can father hundreds or thousands of children, and pass on his "smart genes".