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Being great at surviving doesn't mean shit if you don't pass those traits along to the next generation.

All of these things we do are for our future, our children. It makes no sense to put up a fight if we have no future and without children we have no future.
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Mongoose of the Chalice 2y ago

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Survival is the #1 indicator of passing down genes, sexual selection in most species is merely a slight limiting factor.

A greater percentage of the sea turtle population is lost via death than pool sexual selection. Same for birds that mate for life.

To analogize nature to our current circumstances you would need to look at selection models based on sexual selection only, which is why I brought up the guppy study, as it strengthens the fischerian runaway hypothesis and weakens/disproves the "good genes" hypothesis. To prove your point you'd need to show that sexual selection universally increases survivability, which I don't think is possible, ergo I disagree with your prognosis that our current fischerian runaway in humans is positive or good.

You also don't account for birth control in any of your arguments, which is an atrocious blind spot, as sex access =/= childbirth.

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38155b74... 2y ago

I like the fact that so many birds mate for life but most of the species you listed, if not all, are r selected.

Sex access doesn't always equal childbirth and the pill is one of things that affected this current situation to a large degree but having no sex access definitely means no childbirth.