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Only if the deaths (or more correctly: any effects harsh enough to impede mating) happen before the typical age of becoming a parent. If it's just "live healthy
by usrusr 9y ago
Only if the deaths (or more correctly: any effects harsh enough to impede mating) happen before the typical age of becoming a parent. If it's just "live healthy to very old age" vs "cancer at fifty", then there is no selection bias since our anecdata here is based on the next generation.
- komali2 9y agoEven if he successfully birthed a child, the child wouldn't come here to tell a survivor story if he died of cancer at 50 (probably)