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Evolution took the lazy shortcut of making us want sex, not children, and for millions of years that hack worked. Now that birth control exists, there will be
by klipt 4y ago
Evolution took the lazy shortcut of making us want sex, not children, and for millions of years that hack worked.
Now that birth control exists, there will be much stronger selection for actually wanting children. People who only want sex will be removed from the gene pool.
- jackcosgrove 4y agoI wouldn't call it lazy but parsimonious. At least among mammals, newborns seem to have vastly different requirements from the parents depending on the species. Optimizing for sex rather than nurturing just covers more cases.