Posted by Ardia on
URL: https://coalpha.arkian.net/r-K-selection-theory-tp5582469.html

fschmidt's idea of coAlphas being total losers in the west actually has a fuzzily similar mainstream idea as a cousin - r/K selection theory.

I was aware of this theory for a long time, but it never occurred to me to apply it to female mate choices.

Just a copy of a post I made elsewhere where I wrote about it (rather hastily):
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I read a theory that women from feminist countries dislike high intelligence.

The reasoning (to simplify greatly and imo) basically is there are r and K people.

r people are dumb but concentrate on reproduction but not care of their kids.
K people are smarter and have fewer kids but concentrate on rearing those kids the best.

The theory goes that women have a evolutionarily evolved machivellian intelligence that leads them to be interested in the men who have traits most geared to spreading a womans genes (via sons born to that women).

In western countries (where the vast majority of us are from) there is very little survival hazard, rearing kids is guaranteed by government forced taxation etc...so K genes arent the best.

r genes however would spread much better because the key limit on that strategy was a lower rate of survival of offspring, which is not an issue in the west.

rK selection theory link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory

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