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If it is truly commoner than most think, wouldnt acceptance of it become common eventually?

anonporridge 5y ago
Unlikely from an evolutionary perspective. Those males who are psychologically ok with cuckolding will eventually fail to pass on their DNA, whereas those who have a strong aversion to it will be more likely to pass on their DNA. Being ok with expending your limited time and resources raising unrelated offspring is a self terminating trait.
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  > Being ok with expending your limited time and resources raising unrelated offspring is a self terminating trait. I don't know about that. I know at least one family that has six children, two of whom are adopted. That's somewhat rare, but not totally unique.
  - anonporridge 5y ago
    Still applies here in my opinion. This family you know had 33% fewer biological children than they could have had. That means their DNA will be ever so slightly overwhelmed by families with the same desire and capacity for children who chose to have 100% biological offspring. Having said that, there certainly is some debate on whether genes are actually greater than memes when it comes to this kind of psychology. It could be that the human brain is general enough to be loaded with this kind of DNA self terminating software (meme) such that it continues for longer than you might otherwise expect, because the unrelated offspring still inherit the memes that motivated the decision to not prioritize your own genetically related offspring. However, given enough time and generations, there should still emerge a mutant human brain that is more immune to these kinds of memes, and that genetic lineage slowly out competes the one that is more accepting of raising unrelated offspring.
    - AussieWog93 5y ago
      >This family you know had 33% fewer biological children than they could have had. That's not necessarily true. It's possible - likely, even - that they adopted their last two because there would be issues conceiving a fifth. (Having a C-section limits the number of children a woman can have, for example - as does simply being above a certain age)
- selfhoster11 5y ago
  I disagree. Memes (as in, the culture/personal worldview that can be passed on to descendants) are an equally interested angle of looking at this situation. While the genetics lost this battle, the father's meme is still passed on to the offspring, even if such offspring isn't biological.
  - anonporridge 5y ago
    I agree to some degree, and expanded as much in a sub comment. https://wearehostsformemes.com/ https://wearehostsformemes.com/

Unlikely from an evolutionary perspective. Those males who are psychologically ok with cuckolding will eventually fail to pass on their DNA, whereas those who have a strong aversion to it will be more likely to pass on their DNA. Being ok with expending your limited time and resources raising unrelated offspring is a self terminating trait.

AnimalMuppet 5y ago
> Being ok with expending your limited time and resources raising unrelated offspring is a self terminating trait. I don't know about that. I know at least one family that has six children, two of whom are adopted. That's somewhat rare, but not totally unique.
- anonporridge 5y ago
  Still applies here in my opinion. This family you know had 33% fewer biological children than they could have had. That means their DNA will be ever so slightly overwhelmed by families with the same desire and capacity for children who chose to have 100% biological offspring. Having said that, there certainly is some debate on whether genes are actually greater than memes when it comes to this kind of psychology. It could be that the human brain is general enough to be loaded with this kind of DNA self terminating software (meme) such that it continues for longer than you might otherwise expect, because the unrelated offspring still inherit the memes that motivated the decision to not prioritize your own genetically related offspring. However, given enough time and generations, there should still emerge a mutant human brain that is more immune to these kinds of memes, and that genetic lineage slowly out competes the one that is more accepting of raising unrelated offspring.
  - AussieWog93 5y ago
    >This family you know had 33% fewer biological children than they could have had. That's not necessarily true. It's possible - likely, even - that they adopted their last two because there would be issues conceiving a fifth. (Having a C-section limits the number of children a woman can have, for example - as does simply being above a certain age)
selfhoster11 5y ago
I disagree. Memes (as in, the culture/personal worldview that can be passed on to descendants) are an equally interested angle of looking at this situation. While the genetics lost this battle, the father's meme is still passed on to the offspring, even if such offspring isn't biological.
- anonporridge 5y ago
  I agree to some degree, and expanded as much in a sub comment. https://wearehostsformemes.com/ https://wearehostsformemes.com/