Re: So Much Reproduction Is Adaptive?

You wrote:

"And, the basic proportion of the human population living non-reproductive sexual lifestyles has remained relatively constant for the last 4,000 to 5,000 years as far as we can tell."

And this fact cited by you may well prove to the undoing of the species. "Free-will and self-awareness," as you call them, are also traits of a species that may or may be adaptive depending on how they are used. In an age of overpoplulation, it would seem that the evidence you refer to in the above-quoted statement, if true, suggests that "self-aware free-will" is not now been used with species suvival in mind if we also believe the planet has finite resources.

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