Posts Tagged ‘Biology’

Emm....

Somebody just forwarded me this:

Bad guys really do get the most girls - New Scientist

However, there is a down side of it. Bad guys attract more girls, but it is very difficult to have a long term relationship.

Just little bit of my thoughts.

From evolutionary standpoint I think short relationship is a good thing. If you still remember your sixth form biology, you should be able to recall that all living organisms have only one sole purpose: to pass on the genes.

Short terms can produce a lot offspring.

However, that only applies to the prehistoric society.

In a modern society like the one we got here, more children means more responsibility to the father, thus requiring a lot of energy from the father side to raise those children. However, Men are pretty good at escaping from responsibilities, so that might be OK.

But if a father cannot invest enough resource to his children, they are more likely to fail in this very competitive society.

Now those children have two options: be evil just like their father did, or the genes cease to pass on from there.

I think the first scenario happens more in our society.

Compare with that, good guy  have enough energy and resource to invest on his children, make his children strong and can withstand the competition, thus has a higher chance to pass the genes on.

From genetic point of view, the competition between the good and bad guys is more like a tie, there's no right or wrong strategy for this. It's just a choice between produce very few offspring and help them survive, or many offspring but let the nature(society) to select who survive.

So be good or bad? Your choice.

But based on my common sense, I prefer the "good guy" strategy. Produce offspring requires a lot of energy too:), especially for the mother side, if only a very small fraction of offspring produced can survive, it is not sensible to produce them at a large quantity.

Nah, I haven't been touching my biology book for years, the comments above are just for fun, don't take it seriously.