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Evolutionary success isn't about stronger relationships, it's about having more sex with less birth control and a basically safe environment for childhood survi
by gowld 6y ago
Evolutionary success isn't about stronger relationships, it's about having more sex with less birth control and a basically safe environment for childhood survival.
A male in unstable relationships can have far more offspring than a man in stable relationship, as can (to a lesser exteny) a woman who is so unstable that her children are adopted.
- threatofrain 6y agoIncluding a doctor who uses his own sperm at a sperm bank, which happens from time to time. https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/europe/jan-karbaat-fertility-doctor-scli-intl/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/14/europe/jan-karbaat-fertility-...
- kennywinker 6y agoI was meaning stronger relationships, as in ones that are more likely to get to "let's have kids". But I'll meet you at your point, is stability in a relationship a bad strategy? My answers would be: 1. it's debatable 2. there are multiple viable strategies 3. any theory about what increases fitness needs testing and ones like this are very hard to prove or disprove since the signals are noisy. > A male in unstable relationships can have far more offspring than a man in stable relationship Theoretically can have, sure. But that doesn't instantly translate to that being a higher fitness strategy. For example - does that strategy work in practice, or only in theory? And if it does, what is the success of those offspring? An individual's reproductive success is only as good as their offspring's reproductive success. It's quite possible kids from stable homes are more likely to have more kids than those from unstable homes for a million subtle reasons.