Thursday, November 5, 2015
So, what do you think.......................?
"Reproduction is the central act in the life of every living thing. Once an individual has survived past the age of reproduction, the individual is evolutionarily useless."
-Peter Bevelin
Perhaps it is true, but isn't he totally ignoring the evolutionary value of the growth of consciousness? Also, what are we to make of the totally, and voluntarily, low birth rates in so many developed countries? Seems like lots of folk are avoiding their "central act."
If it didn't take so damn long, evolution might teach us a thing or two about taking the long view.
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Reproduction is central to the usefulness of the individual for most species, but not people. What has made people unique among all known life forms, and enabled peoples' rapid evolution, is communal learning, and older, wiser individuals, who may be past their reproductive age, can contribute quire a lot to our species' communal knowledge. At least, that's what I'd like to think, being past my reproductive usefulness ...
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