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Re:What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health by smallnamespace on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:44PM (#21255368)
The popularity of the Darwin awards notwithstanding, mortality is not the only mechanism by which evolutionary pressure is applied - simply influencing the likelihood of having children (and recursively onward through descendants) is sufficient.

That gives wide latitude for more subtle influences (e.g. attractiveness, desire to have children) to have a large impact.

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Re:What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health by elgenie on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:07AM (#21255924)
Not the main point, but it should be noted that the Darwin Awards are wide open to candidates with outstanding self-sterilizations, not just people that remove themselves from the gene pool by dying (hilariously).

https://darwinawards.com/rules/rules1.html

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Re:What men eat and drink may affect their babies’ health by sombremesa on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:34AM (#21255804)
That's a good point. I just wanted to emphasize that an epigenetic error being passed on is not a measure of its utility to an organism, rather, it is a necessary precondition for the resulting trait to be tested against the environment. Being a necessary element of "natural selection", the meta statement of calling this propagation a positive utility seems a bit incorrect, if only in verbiage.
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