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> Basically, people's personality has an impact on whether they have kids Sounds like a tautology to me. If this were true wouldn't that mean that the genes f
by gerbilly 8y ago
> Basically, people's personality has an impact on whether they have kids
Sounds like a tautology to me.
If this were true wouldn't that mean that the genes for the heritable part of the "want to have kids" personality type would be overrepresented in the population, because they came from parents who had kids?
- Symmetry 8y agoBecause to the extent that there is a "wanting to have kids" trait directly it was less necessary in the ancestral environment because there was also a "wanting to have sex" trait that could do the work. But getting into the stuff we actually measure, stuff like Agreeableness[1] that makes people want to have more kids in the modern world also has significant drawbacks if there's the danger of, e.g., starving to death if you don't look out for number one. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreeableness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreeableness