[TomSwirly]

Or even Venus, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons

(Text here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm)

Both involved Cyril Kornbluth, what a great talent, taken far too soon.

Interestingly, Pohl wrote a sequel to The Space Merchants decades later, and I picked it up, fully expecting it to be terrible, and it was brilliant, and made me cry at the end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchants%27_War_(Pohl_nov...

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Luckily enough, population genetics[0] doesn't follow the model[1] of the year 7-B-936 so much as it does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean .

[0] as many would-be racing breeders have discovered, it's easy to breed the best to the best, but the number of trials incurred while hoping for the best takes deep pockets.

[1] or were the story's names a nod to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_hybrid -isation?