When applied to famous people, the evidence of the effects of birth order is illuminating. Whereas professional revolutionaries such as Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx and Fidel Castro are liable to be laterborn, establishment politicians are more likely to be firstborns. Scientists who are laterborn, like Charles Darwin, are more likely to develop radical theories than are firstborns. The later in birth order a scientist is born, the greater the diversity of their interests perhaps beause being multi-talented increases the chances of striking a parental chord. Scientists prone to acromonious disputes about who has been first to invent a theory which they believe themselves to have originated are three more times likely to be firstborns, perhaps still anxious about siblings stealing their boys.Oliver James, “They Fuck You Up”
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