first-born of 6 (but escaped at age15).
Frank Sulloway's work on birth order and familial dynamics (in BORN TO
REBEL, as I've mentioned previously) would seem to predict that *more*
extropians and transhumanists, as ass-kickers and rebels, would be
later-borns. Of course there are more 1sts than anything else in the world.
But his profile shows that we 1sts are also (by tendency) politically
conservative and severe.