[ExI] Fermi Paradox and Transcension

[Stefano Vaj]

On 15 September 2012 20:27, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Of course, the very ability to accumulate wealth is evolutionarily recent.
>

It can be generalised in the alternative between having a lot of children,
and dividing the parental investment (if any) amongst them, or have fewer
but at the same time concentrating your efforts on their (reproductive)
success.

It is not obvious that species (or genetic profiles) specialising in the
second strategy are always at a disadvantage...

Mammals, for instance, by breastfeeding their children lose a lot of time
and energies which could be devoted to generating more of them.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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