(June 21, 2019 at 3:06 pm)Athena Wrote: Talking specifically about humans, what traits have survived despite being frowned upon? I'm convinced my ancestors found every excuse to get out of battle. They had the sniffles and were convinced it was plague or something. They survived. They just didn't fight for it.
Promiscuity seems like an obvious one. That seems like an enduring trait for any species.
Stealing.
Pretty much all animals, particularly those outside social groups, have no compunction in stealing food from others. I'm pretty sure humans who stole food had a higher survival rate than those they stole from. Seems to me that stealing wasn't admonished (I could be wrong) up until social groups, like tribes formed, and even then it was only within your own tribe that stealing was frowned upon, stealing from other tribes probably was just seen as conquest.
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