<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 4:01 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Males might as well fight on to the<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>death since that's what is going to happen to them if they were<br>captured.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">But those <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">males had mothers, and they had genes not to fight to the death, and so there was a 50% chance the males inherited them from her, the males also had fathers, and they may have had those same "not to fight to the death" genes for the very same reason.</span></font></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>Winning <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[wars] </span>left more copies of genes than losing.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Maybe<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> but evolution can quickly become <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>extremely<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>complicated <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">and counter intuitive, so</span> that is very far from being obvious<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">.</span></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark </span> </font></div></div></div>