I wonder if its a fixed personality trait tbh one go-to "what would make this more interesting" thing I think about is "what if this were just genetically determined" like, this is probably a viable strategy, wouldnt surprise me if evolutionarily stable fraction were >> 0
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there it is. the strategy is actually nest parasitism.
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yeah I mean the etymology of "cuckold" is just this
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feel like I'm learning a lot today lmao
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and the things would definitely include "not all wisdom brings joy" if you hadn't already known that
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tramp stamp without peer tbh
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wait wait wait, aktschually r-selection is about low parental investment, K-selection is about high parental investment -- it's nothing to do with Chads, Virgins, alphas, betas, etc.
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> somebody else's resource tab > low parental investment
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like, you can't actually have a giant litter of humans that you abandon at or before birth, so the way to do r strategy as a human is to burden somebody else with the wee monsters
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I agree that you can see this as r-selection, but if the offspring *still* gets cared for by the mother (or by another male who is being cuckolded) that is not r-selection.
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agreed it is definitely not *real* r-selection, it's K sub r or something, but i would claim it is a meaningful differentiation in genetic propagation strategies inside the human species that maps to the difference between r and K in species in general
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