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Brian
Lv 6
Brian asked in Social ScienceAnthropology · 8 years ago

What's the natural selection benefit for NDE's?

Darwin's theory was about having needs and were satisfied in their offspring - natural selection. What's the benefit to giving your offspring near death experiences?

Update:

Any atheists out there that want to give this a try?

Brain scientists have an answer?

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    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Natural selection does not simply embrace beneficial traits. There's more to it than that. Strong individuals with certain variants of a trait may survive and reproduce more than individuals with other variants. In essence, any phenotype (observable characteristic) that gives a reproductive advantage will become more common in a population, whether it's beneficial or not.

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