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Curiosity does increase the likelihood of survival by expanding the information an organism has or simply have it wander into a more effective or new way of liv

• jqm 11y ago
  Curiosity can also decrease likelihood of survival. See: saying about curiosity and cats. But as a species you might be correct.
  • milkytron 11y ago
    I believe he is absolutely correct when it comes to curiosity increasing the likelihood of survival of a species (ignoring the species problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem). Because others learn from the curiosity of others as well as the one that is curious. Even if the occasional damage is dealt to a species through curiosity, the other members will likely learn and benefit from the mistakes previous beings have made.
    • bcook 11y ago
      Curiosity is good for the group, but perhaps not for the individual?
      • Joof 11y ago
        In evolutionary terms, this is all that matters. For individuals it's definitely a crapshoot.
  • brianclements 11y ago
    In which case you can make a Darwinian distinction between a "clumsy" curiosity and a "cautious" one, with the cautious types eventually winning out.
    • linhchi 11y ago
      Hard to draw a line, because "curiosity kills the cat" is to say about a witty animal. Cat is surely wicked. But it gets killed.
  • agumonkey 11y ago
    But that needs some science of curiosity.