If you’re talking evolution, that argument also applies to women as well. We, as a species, are still alive only because our instinct to pass down our genes. Same with every other form of life.
There’s a lot of evolutionary processes that don’t have to do with having more offspring, but increasing the viability of less offspring. Having kids, no matter the species, is a very costly affair. You could argue that mate selection generally reduces the number of offspring, but increases the viability.
I’ve read a hypothesis (very much unproven) that having some gay members of a species increases the viability by having more people to care for the offspring without being in mate competition. It’s called the gay uncle hypothesis
If you’re talking evolution, that argument also applies to women as well. We, as a species, are still alive only because our instinct to pass down our genes. Same with every other form of life.
Man, the people who invented contraception must have been such a fuckup from evolution’s point of view. Evolution must be tearing its hear out rn
There’s a lot of evolutionary processes that don’t have to do with having more offspring, but increasing the viability of less offspring. Having kids, no matter the species, is a very costly affair. You could argue that mate selection generally reduces the number of offspring, but increases the viability.
I’ve read a hypothesis (very much unproven) that having some gay members of a species increases the viability by having more people to care for the offspring without being in mate competition. It’s called the gay uncle hypothesis
The grandma effect of manopause still applies whether or not we evolved with reproductive thresholds in order to secure that advantage.
So whether or not the gay demographic originally served the population by providing more adults to kids, it certainly does now.
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Absolutely. I was just responding to OP’s examples which all feature men.