That’s a fallacy. Individuals don’t evolve, and neither do whole species; it’s populations that evolve, which for humans means tribes. Behaviours that help the tribe’s survival mean the whole tribe is favoured, even if the individuals exhibiting those behaviours never reproduce themselves. Why do you think latent genes are a thing? How do you think humans developed things like altruism?
I can make things easier for myself and I should, all my hunter-gatherer ancestors agree and they’re the only ones that matter.
Is it more that we don’t hear about the hunter-gatherer ancestors that died by making things themselves due to survivorship bias?
That’s a fallacy. Individuals don’t evolve, and neither do whole species; it’s populations that evolve, which for humans means tribes. Behaviours that help the tribe’s survival mean the whole tribe is favoured, even if the individuals exhibiting those behaviours never reproduce themselves. Why do you think latent genes are a thing? How do you think humans developed things like altruism?
I don’t know, my hunter-gatherer ancestors hate me because I have no kids.
We have a tumultuous relationship.