Would you give your life for your brother? Well maybe two brothers, or a brother and four cousins….
Music “Shot” by Stowaway
Oh, here is that sweet goal by my nephew Aidan (I share .25 of my genes with him…)
[tags]Dave Brodbeck, ALgoma University, Psychology, Biology, Behavioural Ecology, Inclusive Fitness[/tags]
I am totally useless to you, I can’t remember which episode that Kirk quote was from (or was it Picard? No, I think it was Kirk explaining us superior humans to some aliens. Maybe The Day of the Dove?)
Oh–by the way, it’s not monkeys, it’s a FISH named Wanda.
And on the subject of the lecture… (hmmm? whatzat?)
Surely, until fairly recently, children were of course a call on resources but they also were resources, as in workers, particularly when subsistence farming, no?
Yes, but they were only resources once they were old enough, and at that point, they did not cost less than they made, if that makes sense. Early on though, they are a drain, but a worthwhile one, what with their genes and all….
It might be the day of the Dove, good call.
Errrr, cost more than they made.
Also an investment in the more immediate future, as in they will provide for their parents in the parents’ old age (hopefully).
BTW, I know several families with upwards of 6 children (I don’t think any of my elementary school classmates had fewer than 3 siblings), and of multiple families with over 12 children, both in the New York area and in Israel. I guess religious communities are different that way. I don’t know how they do it, but I do know that the older children end up doing a lot of the child care…