(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.
I think it's a good question.
To go for the most basic ones I'll say murderous traits. You kill your rivals, they don't get to breed and you do. I'm guessing even in early human history being murderous would have to be combined with some social, political skill to get people on your side enough so that you don't get killed yourself in retaliation. Or just being deceptive so that people don't know you did it.
Greed. So the greedy person has the resources, money, food, they get to eat and breed, others starve so they don't.
I'll go with promiscuity aswell. We do have contraception now and I'd argue that's not the answer to everything. Through most of human history, extreme promiscuity I imagine would result in a lot of children, not enough resources, crude abortions, orphans.
With all of them like I say you'd probably need some social/political skill, skills in deception or whatever so other people don't kill you in retaliation for being a murderous, food hogging bastard who has had sex with people's partners.
Killing, eating and fucking. Those have to be the most primitive basic things.
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