Is monogamy being bred out of us via natural selection?
In the ancient world, Monogamy made sense biologically. The men would spend their day collecting scarce food/resources for their offspring and caregivers (women). Human beings who did not follow this trend would have their offspring starve and die in the harsh ancient world.
However, in today's world, single mothers won't starve and die like they did in the past. When was the last time a person STARVED in the western world? Exactly. There is no selective pressure AT ALL any more for people to stay monogamous. "It leads to bad living conditions!!" you might say, but you'd be wrong. Poor trash who had shitty conditions in childhood have WAY more babies by the age of 20 than picky university-educated people, many of whom don't even have kids ever.
What does the future look like? I think 10 generations down the road, monogamy will be gone completely. You'll dump some cum into a girl, and she'll be happy to raise a child on her own. I don't think this is bad.
>What does the future look like? I think 10 generations down the road, monogamy will be gone completely. You'll dump some cum into a girl, and she'll be happy to raise a child on her own. I don't think this is bad.
To add to this, I think "intelligence" is also a disappearing trait. Regardless of how stupid you are in today's world (unless you literally have downe-syndrome) food and shelter are pretty much provided to you. Farming technology has been sufficiently developed. You literally just have to follow the instructions of our intelligent ancestors and you have more than enough food. Natural selection dictates that unnecessary traits will disappear over time (sometimes a very long time, but it always happens).
The people of the future will be much more stupid.
Christian Mitchell
This will eventually lead to a white educated elite class. This ruling class will control all of the wealth and divide small amounts to the majority (which was once groups of minorities). What a shame.
Leo Allen
> People will become stupider > What is genetic engineering
Asher Butler
if we get to that point.
if people get stupid faster than the current scientists can figure this out, we're pooched
Joshua Peterson
That's literally impossible, we'd have to drop in IQ by over a standard deviation in one generation for that to happen, the tech for it is already near the point of reaching practical deployment.
Gavin Barnes
Scociety as a whole has already regressed in intelligence by a noticeable amount.
As for single mothers. They still live off the baby's daddy by taking most of his paycheck.
Camden Flores
The most success we've had with gene modification is in lab conditions with mice, crickets, and bacteria colonies. Even then, it's just small tweaks to physical characteristics or producing more of a certain hormone. Nothing like "increasing human intelligent considerably"
Just do some math here. Of my stupid-as-fuck highschool peers, about 50% of them have had kids already at the age of 23. Some of them have 2 kids. Of my university peers, not a single one of them have had children.
It's not that 'intelligence' is a negative trait, it's just an unnecessary trait. And the laws of natural selection state that unnecessary traits always disappear over time. In fact, it might even hinder your ability to find a mate
Levi Murphy
it's not that we'll be "pooched", but rather technological progress would slow and stop, and we would just be a bunch of mindless "social" animals for hundreds of thousands of years, not exploring other planets or anything like that
Lucas Hill
> the laws of natural selection state that unnecessary traits always disappear over time That's not true at all, things don't disappear unless there's negative selective pressure against them. There's not really any reason for humans to have body hair at this point or tailbones but there's no selection against them so we still have them.
