ok I'll be more explicit (wishing I could find an article cite but I've stoned that data out of my head apparently) most species are only r or K strategists. some species, however, have _both_ variants in the same population, in different proportions. Humans are like this.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and
in species with external fertilization (a lot of fish) the K strategist males are Chad-like. large and strong and attractive to females. the r strategist males are Virgin-like. small and shy and mostly unattractive to females. how do they reproduce?
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and
by cheating, that's how. they wait for a K-male to pair with a female and they rush in and skeet at just the right opportune moment to get some of their juice mixed in with the Chad juice and some fraction of the eggs are gonna be little baby Virgins.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and
now extrapolate this to human physiology. what does that look like? looks a lot like PUA culture tbh.
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and
the Chad husband vs. the Virgin PUA
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Replying to @danlistensto @eigenrobot and
sure, the r strategy isn't about maximizing the amount of pleasurable fucking you get to do, it's about maximizing your chances of spreading your genes on somebody else's resource tab
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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto and
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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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @danlistensto and
> somebody else's resource tab > low parental investment
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Replying to @chaosprime @Locus_of_Ctrl and
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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Replying to @chaosprime @danlistensto and
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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