>> I don't think it has *ever* been the case that intelligent people had 
>> more children. 
> 
> Unless the intelligent persons survived longer themselves or, if they 
> were male, had more than one wife. In (regular) chimps the alpha male 
> (who is often intelligent) might prevent lower ranking apes mating. Not 
> sure if that had a counterpart in humanity or that we were always more 
> like bonobos.
> For some other (fictional) counterexamples see 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_de_seigneur

I'm thinking of the wealthy aristocracy who had maybe one or two 
children, verses the starving peasents who had dozens, most of whom died 
within months of being born. (Assuming they survived birth.)

But sure, I don't have any actual statistics. ;-)

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