Apparently ours is the first generation where prosperity <> tons of offspring.
*(<> means does not equal for you non dork types)
But back in the day, with tons of power and tons of money came tons of offspring. Genghis Khan passed on the Y chromosome that is present in 8 percent of males in Central Asia.
And apparently, there was some Irish King that has approximately 3 million descendants today.
Can you imagine if the wealthy and powerful were dropping seed like that today?
In 1500 years we’d have 3 million little Bill Gates running around…
<shudder>…
January 17th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
That’s a good point. Look at Zeus and old school kings. Imagine the child support today…