What ectropy said about life expectancy at birth. If you made it as far as 12, life expectancy went way up.
You could make some entertaining arguments about how impulsiveness and lack of consideration of consequences during one's teenage years are very good things from the point of view of genes desiring to reproduce themselves.
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Date: 2009-11-06 02:39 pm (UTC)You could make some entertaining arguments about how impulsiveness and lack of consideration of consequences during one's teenage years are very good things from the point of view of genes desiring to reproduce themselves.