re: #509 lostlakehiker

Darwinian selection either way. In fact, Darwin say better for parents that they themselves die than that their children die. Darwin/Mendel say, better that the copies of the genes living in the younger body live on.

The momma bear knows this. Most human parents know it. Other humans manage not through any wits of their own, but because they live in the society of those who warn them when they’re about to do something terminally stupid.

Of course, that’s part of our own species survival strategy—the ability and willingness to yell “Shit! Don’t DO that!”