Journal of a Cosmic Anthropologist

just a few centuries ago, millions of soldiers, priests, nuns and the like had no children at all while a few men had dozens.

“In fact, in the modern world we are going back to the life of the hunter gatherers – back to the savannah – with central heating rather than sunshine, foraging trips to the supermarket instead of back-breaking labour in the fields and no real fear of starvation or epidemic disease.