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> And there’s little survival advantage for people who can effectively fight cancer after their reproductive age. I don't know how to quantify it, but having h
by humanrebar 5y ago
> And there’s little survival advantage for people who can effectively fight cancer after their reproductive age.
I don't know how to quantify it, but having healthy grandparents in the picture is a survival advantage.
- f6v 5y agoHaving old grandparents who can’t hunt or forage and need to be fed is a big handicap. I’d like to see a cost/benefit analysis if there’s any.
- RosanaAnaDana 5y agoIts different when your grandparents are in their late 30's, early 40's. Modern reproductive ages are much, much later than they have been both historically and prehistorically. Grandparents 600-4k years ago would have been in their late thirties, mid forties for all but a very few. Still unlikely to generate significant selection pressure considering that the vast majority of cancers are late in life. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK97292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK97292/
- humanrebar 5y agoOK. Replace "grandparents" with "elderly relatives".