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I don't think humans are every going to evolve past being a K-selected species.
by ForHackernews 7y ago
I don't think humans are every going to evolve past being a K-selected species.
- toasterlovin 7y agoThey can evolve past having below replacement fertility, though. And then they can evolve to something like 3-4 children per woman while remaining K selected. With 3-4 children per woman, the human population will quickly expand to fill out our ecological niche, just as we have done in the last several hundred years.
- username90 7y agoHuman females can easily have over 10 children each, so we are R-selected compared to a lot of species like Bonobos. Just a minor behavioral adjustment and we'll growing by a factor of 5 per generation, that will never happen to Bonobos who can only get pregnant every 5 years.