natural selection n.
the process by which forms of life having traits that better enable them to adapt to specific environmental pressures, as predators, changes in climate, or competition for food or mates, will tend to survive and reproduce in greater numbers than others of their kind, thus ensuring the perpetuation of those favorable traits in succeeding generations.
Yeah, life can involve trade-offs. Fewer people on the planet doesn't seem like such a bad thing. Voluntary decline in progeny vs. war, famine, or pandemic...think I'll opt for the slow decline.
More than a dozen to her line, down to a third generation...great grandchildren. Hard work. The right attitude.
Her: (smiles) You look like you are down to fighting weight.
Him: (sits up straight) I'm not a fighter.
Her: (head tilts forward, without missing a beat) I didn't say you were a fighter.
Her first time she had tried pull-ups, she had done almost a full dozen.
Wisdom...the kind of wisdom that is capable of more than just getting by, but wisdom that knows what it takes to survive...
Not too long after her first attempt at a dozen chin-ups, well into her sixth decade of life...
|Yeah...she's a 'great'-grandma|
She smiles again and asks, "Now, tell me about Japan."