> also no one really chooses their offspring's 'half of the lottery', it's an accident of nature -- we only get to choose whether or not we try to propagate our own skew into the lottery roll
In modern societies, most people choose their mating partner. That’s the lottery half that I am referring to.
Of course no one chooses specifically which half of each mate goes into the child. That would be absurd.
> and to be very real here for a second, 99% of sexual interaction has nothing to do with genetic time-traveling bottle-messages, and just as few people really give a thought about the genetic combinations resulting from their actions.
For the individual sure “it’s just deliberate sex” but for the genome, transmission of the message into the distant future is all there is.
Just look around you, you will likely see and hear more evidence of those billion year long message transmissions than anything else.
In modern societies, most people choose their mating partner. That’s the lottery half that I am referring to.
Of course no one chooses specifically which half of each mate goes into the child. That would be absurd.
> and to be very real here for a second, 99% of sexual interaction has nothing to do with genetic time-traveling bottle-messages, and just as few people really give a thought about the genetic combinations resulting from their actions.
For the individual sure “it’s just deliberate sex” but for the genome, transmission of the message into the distant future is all there is.
Just look around you, you will likely see and hear more evidence of those billion year long message transmissions than anything else.