Survival of the Fittest or Survival of the Best Mothers?

Not long ago, I was discussing the challenges with the "survival of the fittest" theory when it came to evolution. You see, evolutionary theory is broken into several categories and survival of the fittest is a component of all that. It basically states that those members of the species which are the most fit live long enough to procreate, and the others just get eaten or die prior to that point, thus their genes do not survive into the future. That's a pretty easy concept to comprehend and it makes logical sense. Okay so, let's talk shall we?

Now then, it may very well be that the strongest warriors went out in battle to fight, and fighting is a problem because people get hurt and killed, therefore many of the strongest end up perishing. Remember will, bravery, strength, and intelligence are only part of the necessary attributes to survive in battle, another is luck. So, just because you are one with all those fighting skills, well that doesn't mean you are guaranteed to survive any given battle, much less many on end forever, well until your time is up.

Meanwhile if you are busy fighting battles you are not back in the village bedding down with all the women left behind who need serving. Thus, weaker genes get passed on as well, actually in that scenario, more often right? Sure you can see that point too, which also makes perfect sense as you reason this line of thinking. If the weaker men are left in the village they pass on their genes more, until of course that village is raided by other marauders and they are besieged and eliminated.

Yes, being a human in past periods was indeed a real problem, or very challenging. The women may have been raped and killed, but the strongest probably survived and gave birth to offspring, thus, in many regards it's not about the survival of the fittest men, but survival of the fittest woman. Indeed, as a man this makes me smile, even if it is a hard-hit to the ego. Still, the woman who reasoned all this and presented it to me as a point of contention did make some interesting points right?

So, maybe when it comes to this particular component of the "survival of the fittest" perhaps we might consider this and think about it on a deeper level is all that I am saying here today. So, do with this information what you will and if you'd like to pick up where these questions leave off, shoot me an email at your earliest convenience.