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Catholic Scientist writes:Or maybe you're wrong You ever consider that as a possible answer?

Bluejay writes:Hi, Zi Ko. Given this, we would predict that younger siblings will be fitter than their older siblings, because empathy will allow the mother to subconsciously improve her later offspring in relation to her earlier offspring.I'm quite certain that this prediction will fail.

Catholic Scientist writes:You posit that evolution employs some kind of communication between parent and offspring while totally failing to consider that the majority of species have no means of this communication.My answer was hypothetical. Would you like me to say that God's Will is the link between these spescies? Or there is no any communication at all and blind chance is the origin to their creation and evolution?
The logical response to this is not "well maybe they do have the communications". The logical response is "oh yeah, it looks like I was wrong".

Bluejay writes:Hi, Zi Ko. 我有一點困惑。HoThe mother will feel the need for faster offspring, and this feeling will translate through the rest of her progeny until, hundreds or thousands of generations later, it makes the next offspring faster?What is your mechanism for the inheritance of these empathic states? w does what the mother feels upon seeing her offspring killed translate into evolution many generations later?

Taq writes:What are these general directions, how are they communicated, and what are they communicated to?

Coyote writes:Correct so far. Absolutely false.Evolution relies on selection pressure acting on populations.In any given population some individuals reproduce more successfully, and some less so. This, looked at over long spans of time or many generations, adequately accounts for all the effects you are trying to explain.