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Jokes aside, you may be right that it's self correcting at the species level (though still bad at the individual level -- i.e., for those women who wanted to ge
by mysterypie 8y ago
Jokes aside, you may be right that it's self correcting at the species level (though still bad at the individual level -- i.e., for those women who wanted to get pregnant).
The first time I heard of Fisher's principle it blew my mind: If the male to female ratio gets imbalanced, it'll return to 1:1 after about 2 generations. The reasoning can be understood by logic alone (see the "basic explanation" in Wikipedia[1]), but there's also experimental evidence[2]. I think that the same argument should hold if the genetic component that makes you avoid fast food is an inherited property.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle
[2] http://www.genetics.org/content/148/2/719 http://www.genetics.org/content/148/2/719