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Science suggests the opposite of what you are saying about keeping the old around, I believe. It may be one reason humans are so long-lived. https://en.wikipe
by JohnJamesRambo 9y ago
Science suggests the opposite of what you are saying about keeping the old around, I believe. It may be one reason humans are so long-lived.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_hypothesis
- sarumpaet 9y agoThis is just evolution doing gradient boosting. I like it.
- fooker 9y agoThis is cool. Still seems to have a limit though. How many of these elders do you need to care for your children though? 2, 4, 8, 16, ...? Maybe grandmother hypothesis works, but evolution would not care much for a great-grandmother hypothesis. This actually seems consistent with the current lifespan of human beings. Most people have grandparents when they are children. Very few people have great-grandparents.