Lately I've been reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins and it got me wondering whether some of what this site represents has an actual evolutionary background.
Ever so slightly misused for that context, but still
My hypothesis is as follows:
1) From the perspective of the survival of an individual, getting most benefit of available food might be a good enough compromise for temporarily lost agility and/or speed.
2) How genes might achieve this behaviour would be to simply cause individuals having the gene to get abnormal amount of pleasure from being full.
3) I also think there might be at least two genes involved. One for wanting to eat until overstuffed. A second one that basically stores all available calories as fat much more efficiently.
Of course I have no evidence to support this, but its a fun hypothesis anyway.
Thoughts?
Ever so slightly misused for that context, but still
My hypothesis is as follows:
1) From the perspective of the survival of an individual, getting most benefit of available food might be a good enough compromise for temporarily lost agility and/or speed.
2) How genes might achieve this behaviour would be to simply cause individuals having the gene to get abnormal amount of pleasure from being full.
3) I also think there might be at least two genes involved. One for wanting to eat until overstuffed. A second one that basically stores all available calories as fat much more efficiently.
Of course I have no evidence to support this, but its a fun hypothesis anyway.
Thoughts?
11 years