> Your "selfish gene" would do better directing you toward fundamentalist communities where reproductive rates are higher. That's not like the selfish gene the

> Your "selfish gene" would do better directing you toward fundamentalist communities where reproductive rates are higher. That's not like the selfish gene theory work at all. In species where sex is involved, the "quality" of the genes of your partner is as much as important for the destiny of your genes as the fact you are reproducing. That's why sports stars and millionaires marry and have kids with beautiful models instead of getting pregnant 1000 plain Janes. It does not make so much sense since in modern society the survival rate is pretty high, but as the usually repeated mantra says ;"we humans are machines living in the current world with a 200k-year-old firmware "