Geniuses, Criminals Do Best Work in Their 30s

Science - Reuters ^ | 2003-07-09

[Junior]

LONDON (Reuters) - Geniuses and criminals may not seem to have much in common but they both do their best work in their 30s -- and mainly to impress the opposite sex.

When Satoshi Kanazawa, of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, studied biographies of prominent, mostly male scientists he discovered that they made their key discovery before their mid 30s, around the same age that criminal behavior peaks.

He believes the male competitive urge to attract females is a driving force for the scientific and criminal achievements, according to New Scientist magazine.

"They do whatever they do in order to get laid," said Kanazawa.

He added that the competitive drive decreases with age and as men's priority shifts from competing for women to taking care of their offspring.

"Kanazawa also found that marriage dampens the drive in both arenas," the magazine added.

 

 

 

[Junior]

It may be over for you guys, but I've still got two good years left.

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[meenie]

Does two times thirty count? I thought so. My better days are behind me.

[pogo101]

"Hey, baby. What say we cruise back to my place and groove on my Special Theory of Relativity? I have some Barry White records ... "

[PatrickHenry]

He added that the competitive drive decreases with age and as men's priority shifts from competing for women to taking care of their offspring.

What are we supposed to learn from this? To keep our scientists productive, we should forbid marriage for them? And to slow down our serial murderers, we should encourage them to marry? The result will be a new generation which is fathered by criminals and which has no offspring from scientists.

[VadeRetro]

"Why, you goldurned whippersnapper!"

[PatrickHenry]

It may be over for you guys, but I've still got two good years left.

Even in my drooling dotage, sonny, I'm still ... hmmmm ... I forgot what I was going to say.

[Aracelis]

"They do whatever they do in order to get"...(fill in the blank)

Hmmm...plummage?

[Aracelis]

I've still got two good years left.

Then, for God's sake, breed! The only way we will overcome ignorance is to out-breed it.

[Jay D. Dyson]

I'm sure this will come as a surprise to Buckminster Fuller, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Dick Feynman, Marie Curie, and many others...

-Jay

[longshadow]

The result will be a new generation which is fathered by criminals and which has no offspring from scientists.

Nothing new. It's called: "The United States Congress."

;-)

Or, as Mark Twain put it: "There is no native criminal class in America...... except for Congress."

[Nick Danger]

"They do whatever they do in order to get laid," said Kanazawa.

What a crock. This guy has obviously never had the experience of being young, knowing everything, and being right. If they could bottle that stuff, it would sell better than sex.

[Junior]

Yeah, but women would hate it... "You're so immature," they'd say.