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Of course, human achievement is full of Pareto distributions.

Same with mating - a small percentage of say 10% of men mate with half the women or so. Throughout history you have twice as many female ancestors as Male ancestors. Success accumulates at the top.

[eloff]

The mating thing is no longer true. Unless you define it as offspring, but those are hardly successful men in financial terms. If you define it as dating or sex it's true. But most men marry - a relatively recent thing in human society.