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The only way I see of "evolving a response to it" is selecting for baby-crazed women who are basically addicted to the hormonal changes of childbirth and rearin
by sedachv 15y ago
The only way I see of "evolving a response to it" is selecting for baby-crazed women who are basically addicted to the hormonal changes of childbirth and rearing. Men would already be happy to impregnate women as much as possible, if they didn't have to stick around or pay child support.
It's hard not to think of Idiocracy.
- btilly 15y agoAnd you think that selection process is not going on? Anyways there are other possible responses. There is a strong correlation between being religious and having lots of kids. Therefore genes that incline one towards being religious are positively correlated with kids. Another is a trait of failing to worry about future consequences. (Now you'll really be thinking about Idiocracy.) Complex traits like these are part nurture and part nature. But to the extent that they are nature, there is evolutionary pressure for them to spread.