This has been bugging me for a while, so I'd like to bounce it off the forum and hear some peoples ideas.
Why is it that winners always seem to have so few kids in the current era? Buffet and Gates have 3 children each. Pitt has 3 and Clooney 0. Gene Simmons, in spite of having banged in excess of 4000 women, has 2. So does David Bowie. Felix Dennis, who claimed at one point to be supporting 17 mistresses, has 0 children.
Meanwhile there are bottom-of-the-pile dudes racking up double-digits, like this guy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18...8850.html.
If you look back through history, you find many men in high positions (kings especially) who simply reproduced subject to biological limits only - the burden any child could impose being negligible compared to their capacity to cover it. This is consistent with sexual selection theory - men with strong traits rise to the top, and by being at the top have preferential reproductive access, thereby having more offspring and moving the species in the direction of those strong traits.
Why is it that modern winners are so birth-control sensitive, rather than reproductively profiting from their high position?
Why is it that winners always seem to have so few kids in the current era? Buffet and Gates have 3 children each. Pitt has 3 and Clooney 0. Gene Simmons, in spite of having banged in excess of 4000 women, has 2. So does David Bowie. Felix Dennis, who claimed at one point to be supporting 17 mistresses, has 0 children.
Meanwhile there are bottom-of-the-pile dudes racking up double-digits, like this guy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/18...8850.html.
If you look back through history, you find many men in high positions (kings especially) who simply reproduced subject to biological limits only - the burden any child could impose being negligible compared to their capacity to cover it. This is consistent with sexual selection theory - men with strong traits rise to the top, and by being at the top have preferential reproductive access, thereby having more offspring and moving the species in the direction of those strong traits.
Why is it that modern winners are so birth-control sensitive, rather than reproductively profiting from their high position?