Large Families as Selection Strategy

Parents seeking dynastic advantages can pursue a low‑tech strategy: have more children to create a 'portfolio' of traits rather than engineering individual embryos. The article argues large sibships increase the chance that at least one child matches the family's ambitions without relying on expensive genetic screening. — This reframes debates about reproductive technology and inequality by juxtaposing reproductive scaling (family size) as an alternative selection mechanism with implications for fertility policy, class formation, and demographic trends.