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Re:Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by Smaug123 on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:00AM (#34832462)
That's just not the kind of goal natural selection is capable of optimising towards. Natural selection instils the execution of adaptations which on average have historically demonstrated increased reproduction rates. It does nothing else. (Humans, of course, have other goals orthogonal to those of natural selection, and are capable of optimising in favour of them, but natural selection is a blind idiot god that wants precisely one thing and will always aim dumbly at it to the exclusion of all else. We're fortunate that it is so dumb and slow, because it leaves us with plenty of room to do our own optimisation with our brains.)

Can you name any other time natural selection has optimised for the pleasure of a mammal at the explicit expense of reproduction?

Re:Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by alexpi on Friday February 17, 2023 @04:41AM (#34832737)
You're right, there is no way evolution can do it, especially within single or two generations. It optimizes for adaption and survival, not a pleasure.
Re:Declining Sperm Count: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by midoridensha on Friday February 17, 2023 @06:22AM (#34833362)
Humans haven't been undergoing natural selection for thousands of years, only artificial selection.