Sexual selection and entrepreneurship  From Neil Niman’s article
Sexual Selection and Economic Positioning:  If economic agents
earn the market clearing wage or the normal rate of return, it
becomes difficult for an individual to stand out relative to
one’s peers. Yet it is the ability to distinguish one’s
prosperity and prospects that lead to reproductive success—a
level of success that ultimately determines which genes are
passed along from generation to generation. Thus, if the
economic agent is to maximize the probability for survival of
the gene through time, it cannot be a passive ‘price taker,’ but
rather must be an active seeker of relative success. For
employees, relative success often comes from actions designed to
gain above average wage increases within a particular
organization. In the case of entrepreneurs, market power is
created by either holding back the forces of competition within
an existing market, or as the result of inventive activity that
ultimately results in the creation of entirely