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Evolution: its ideological self-refutation

 

Recently I stumbled upon the fact that Honey Boo Boo‘s sister had a child at age 18. The grandmother, Honey Boo Boo’s mother, is 33 years old. Younger than I am! Then I see headlines in trashy British tabloids of the form: The three men who have fathered 78 children with 46 different women… and they’re not paying child support to any of them. Here I am, in the fullness of man-childhood, a new father, groping to understand evolutionary process in all its glory, and here are they who live evolution! There are those around us who don’t blink at maximizing their fitness in the modern world. Here’s some data from the GSS:

Humans developed from animalsNumber of children
0123456 or more
TRUE64.255.650.741.535.140.732.2
FALSE35.844.449.358.564.959.367.8


Age when first child born

18 and under19 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 and above

TRUE56.640.154.259.268
FALSE43.459.945.840.832

Go teen parents! Maybe?

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