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For our ancestors, not being choosy about sex had very serious consequences. (It still might.) It’s “wild” to you that 3 million years of evolution is working a
by subjectsigma 2y ago
For our ancestors, not being choosy about sex had very serious consequences. (It still might.) It’s “wild” to you that 3 million years of evolution is working as intended?
- amanaplanacanal 2y agoI assume you are talking about our Hunter-gatherer ancestors based on the timeframe, but I'm not sure what you mean by serious consequences. Could you expand on that a bit? I suspect monogamy as we know it is a response to the invention of agriculture, and we have closer relatives (the bonobos) who have sex much more freely than some of our other closer relatives.
- subjectsigma 2y agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11219 https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms11219 EDIT: Whoops I misread the abstract of the article, that doesn’t really give evidence towards my claim. However STDs did exist and I’m assuming people knew about them. Pregnancy itself would be a deterrent
- sneed_chucker 2y agoFor our female ancestors, yes. For our male ancestors, less so.
- siva7 2y ago3 million? You may have missed some classes in school
- subjectsigma 2y agoBelieve it or not evolution did not start with Homo Sapiens!