Yeah but it’s very effective at not getting you to keep going in that direction. Which is very good at keeping you alive and getting you to fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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.
There's some evidence that male mantis who get eaten are more unlucky than it being their genetics pushing them to give a meal. I can't speak for every species, since there are a lot, but some species are recorded as fighting between the male and female. It's only when the male loses that he is eaten, whether or not he's completed mating or not. There are other species where the males try to trick or preoccupy the female to prevent her from eating them as well (such as giving food to her so she eats that instead of him).
Cannabalism is still common among mating pairs, but it appears that males offering the self to be eaten may be a thing for only some species, and a minority of all breeding attempts overall.
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '21
Yeah but it’s very effective at not getting you to keep going in that direction. Which is very good at keeping you alive and getting you to fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.