Re 'good enough': given time & energy trade-offs, evolution rarely maximizes any single trait, including quality of parental investment. Good enough is ... good enough.
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You're only here because, ever since the rise of sentient life in the Cambrian, a billion generations of moms took good enough care of their offspring. An unbroken chain of maternal devotion and success. #MothersDay
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Great Hallmark card: "Thank you for your good-enough mothering. I appreciate surviving to reproductive age."
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Thats next month.
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@neiltyson is tough.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I chuckled at Mothers Day supposedly celebrating "good enough".
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Prof Miller, always my favorite romantic
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Probably necessary but not sufficient, takes two to tango
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Sure, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Interesting how often some men want to write themselves out of this story tho. A word of advice, it’s not a particularly attractive approach.
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It is redundant to me because those moms were selected to do that anyway. OTOH, I forecast happier people if they catch up with family.
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