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From natural selection perspective, at that point you've already passed on your genes and now your most important mission is to ensure those genes get passed al
by cesnja 7y ago
From natural selection perspective, at that point you've already passed on your genes and now your most important mission is to ensure those genes get passed along. Your own wellbeing is not important.
- emerongi 7y agoOf course it is important, a newborn is not able to survive for years to come without parental support. If terrible sleep reduces the parent's survival or its ability to protect the child by a big enough percentage, I'd imagine there would be an evolutional pressure there.