<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>However, lots of people who are high-IQ show some traits that might belong to the “Asperger” family, and their children are likely to have more of these traits than either individual parent. This would limit the ability of such children to produce offspring.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### This is a pretty complicated subject, hard to address in a post. Autism is associated with low IQ but then high-IQ is mildly associated with some autistic traits. Hard to tell what is the overall impact on general fertility but I would think it's relatively minor.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>Perhaps there is no causation, but there is correlation in this instance.</div><div><br></div><div>Families with autistic members have an increased rate of children with autism.</div><div><br></div><div>Older parents are more likely to have autistic children.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>