Not if you consider parents tend to care for their descendants -> healthier parents long-term will have more successful descendants, probabilistically speaking.

Not if you consider parents tend to care for their descendants -> healthier parents long-term will have more successful descendants, probabilistically speaking. ex: unfit parents won't be doing a great job of keeping their children and/or grandchildren out of the mouths of hyenas. Note we're talking evolutionary time scales here, this is hunter-gatherers in loin cloths on the savanna territory.