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Just received a photo of a 1 day old boy, one of my bestest friend's son. He looks just like his Dad.
So there's the idea that babies look more like their fathers when they first pop out so that they're more likely to survive - in olden times, a male might be suspicious of the origins of his woman's fidelity, so rather than go Lion-like "kill all the children just in case!" the child looks like the father so he'll think it is and bond with it.
Neat.
Except, the problem I've always had with this idea is - cave people didn't have mirrors. How the fuck would Dad know what HE looked like?
- eish "origins of his woman's fidelity" = "origins of the child and his woman's fidelity" or something. poor editing. as always.Nairn
- lol. not sure if cave people were completely monogamous, if at all. Plus, during those times the human race was maybe <20,000 in populationfuturefood
- ...so giant cave-fuck-fests must have been priorityfuturefood
- Aye, exactly! So the evolutionary drive is to ensure father bonds with actual son, rather than killing it and 'ensuring' his succession.Nairn
- ^ A giant cave orgy would be a mad episode of the Flintstones.PhanLo
- Good point!
https://www.qbn.com/…Nairn - Flintstones lollllfuturefood
- We almost went extinct 70k y ago https://www.npr.org/…********
- reflection in ponds?microkorg