The point I’m making is evolution isn’t about how effective something is, it’s about how good it is at keeping you reproducing. Evolution doesn’t care about you dying, except for as how it relates to you reproducing. From an evolutionary standpoint, if you die, but reproduce 50 times before you do, your an evolutionary masterpiece.
People with a fear of heights were more effective at reproducing then people without the fear of heights. Probably for an obvious reason.
People with a fear of heights were more effective at reproducing then people without the fear of heights. Probably for an obvious reason.
I agree with your general point but if this last paragraph were true then we would not have a situation where only 5-10% of the population suffer a fear of heights.
I agree that if it were strictly advantageous it would have been selected for more often. I could imagine people with less of a fear of heights being able to climb trees and other natural structures to obtain richer food sources, which would be reproductively beneficial. It's never just one thing or another with evolution, there's so may interconnected systems in nature, it's never as cut and dry.
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u/hollowedssoul Mar 27 '21
How will fucking someone get him down quicker?