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If they're in people who are past reproductive age, they may serve no purpose at all. Or maybe their purpose is to make old people stop consuming the tribe's f
by bjt 10y ago
If they're in people who are past reproductive age, they may serve no purpose at all.
Or maybe their purpose is to make old people stop consuming the tribe's food so that there's more for kids and people who can still have kids.
- rwmj 10y agoWhich is still a useful purpose. No one wonders what will happen to the young when we have so many old people owning more and more resources.
- ceejayoz 10y agoLots of people wonder that, from science fiction authors to sociologists to random yahoos on HN. We've got some historical modelling available - as life expectancy has increased family sizes have dropped accordingly. Maybe we'll have entire villages with a couple communally raised children every decade.
- Florin_Andrei 10y ago> Which is still a useful purpose. Useful for the genes in your cells. Not useful for you as an individual.
- hasenj 10y agoUseful for the young generation.
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoNope. Useful for the genes, period.