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Ultimately natural selection dominates, of course. But sexual selection is a real evolutionary force and has the ability to either greatly increase the evoluti
by randyrand 9y ago
Ultimately natural selection dominates, of course.
But sexual selection is a real evolutionary force and has the ability to either greatly increase the evolution rate (which is why gender evolved in the first place) or at times regress it.
I wonder how often sexual selection back-fires and why, but I imagine thats the exception not the rule.
- vanderZwan 9y ago> which is why gender evolved in the first place You mean as a social construct? Because if you mean that in the biological sense, then sex has probably more to do with sharing beneficial mutations, and error correction against the bad ones: https://www.quantamagazine.org/missing-mutations-suggest-a-reason-for-sex-20170713/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/missing-mutations-suggest-a-r...
- randyrand 9y agoThat's the same thing as what I said. It augments the evolution rate. Gender allows us to evolve faster/better because it allows the brain/choice to influence evolution at a higher level.