Once an organism has lived long enough to be able to reproduce and no longer is able to reproduce, there is no evolutionary purpose for that organism to stick a

Once an organism has lived long enough to be able to reproduce and no longer is able to reproduce, there is no evolutionary purpose for that organism to stick around The theory of evolution speaks of adaptation to the environment so that one may survive. Whether they want to survive only so that they may pass on their genes is only a hypothesis which sounds rather convincing, but there is hardly any evidence for it. There is no reason to assume that we only live so that we may reproduce, although reproduction is an important part of our existence.