Exactly my point! You can’t question why women go through menopause while disregarding the fact that males of our species don’t, despite experiencing the same decline in reproductive fitness. This is something that goes hand-in-hand. You can’t ask why women have evolved a biological function without questioning why…

And I’m saying you can’t examine one without the other. We are of the same species. If women have evolved to go through menopause and continue to live past their reproductive age much longer than our closest relatives (chimps, gorillas, etc), then you have to consider why men also continue to live so long and why they…

The study looks at male philopatry and post reproductive life span. My argument is that this is pointless without considering male reproductive life span as well. By only looking at philopatry and female PRLS, the study completely ignores the main question - which is WHY do females go through menopause whereas males…

You can absolutely examine why women go through menopause and men don’t. That’s not at all a lack of parsimony. This study only looks at male philopatry and post-menopausal life span while disregarding male reproductive life spans. This study is useless and shows nothing new.

And I personally think that you cannot examine what the biological benefit of females staying alive after menopause is without also examining why males stay alive after they lose reproductive fitness. The two issues go hand-in-hand. You can’t examine why one sex in a specific species acts a certain way regarding…

Spiders, marsupials (which are mammals) and a host of other non-insect creatures die after mating.

I missed a lot of school growing up because of debilitating period pain. Thankfully, as I’ve gotten older, it’s become much more manageable. But as a teen I was absolutely bedridden. I would vomit from the pain regularly and in one particular instance, I threw up 14 times in the span of 8 hours (it was mostly just…

Males of many species die immediately after mating. Old sperm is also more likely to contribute to birth defects.

The problem with the study is that it only asks why older women remain alive while completely ignoring why men, infertile people, or gay people remain alive when they serve no reproductive purposes either. It’s as if women’s sole purpose is to have a baby and then they become useless. Males of many species fuck and…

And what about the gays!?

Well the same reasoning would extend to men then. Nobody needs some 80 year old man hanging around taking food from the young people while not contributing shit. I think the issue with this study is that it only looked at women - as if our only purpose is to procreate. Whereas they didn’t look at men, who are arguably…

Male marsupials mate for hours and then die. Males of other species do as well. It’s called suicidal reproduction. How come human men don’t do the same after busting a nut? #Answermescience.

True. Different cultures I guess. I just always find it jarring because Indian is more of a slur in Canada when referring to First Nations. It’s just not considered appropriate here.

It’s definitely a bit jarring - in Canada Indian is definitely more of a slur. You hear Natives call themselves that sometimes, but I wouldn’t dare use it to describe someone who’s First Nations.

That’s not really an excuse. Names can change.

Interesting. Name sounds super racist, but I guess Americans still use the term Indians.

Oh boy. I see.

Ugh so obnoxious. Please fine them. What is it with Americans and wanting to etch their names into shit?

I was actually confused about the brief moment at 2:33 - is that a First Nations child dancer or a young black kid in Native dress? What’s the significance of that? If that is traditional native dress and he’s not native, that’s definitely not cool.

Well exactly. Do you think your Blue Lives Matter relatives would have logged on to Tidal to watch the video and formulate their own opinion about it? Or do you think they would have never seen it if the media hand’t made a big stink about it and told them to be offended? I’m going with the latter. Media today is a…