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But we had to do it the hard way in the old days by choosing offspring that looked a particular way and then breeding them.
Consider, first, the reality that people today, in some cultures, are making choices about their offspring.
You can change the cells in your body, but what if you could change the cells in your offspring?
Now if we make some guesses about how long Homo erectus lived, what their generation time was, that's about 40,000 generations of parents to offspring, and other individuals watching, in which that hand axe didn't change.
Think about evolution in terms of offspring competing, and some winning.
And then, once you hit the threshold where the mutation rate is so high that you cannot self-reproduce, you cannot copy the information forward to your offspring without making so many mistakes that your ability to replicate vanishes.
In rodents, it was known to make mothers care for their offspring, and in some creatures, allowed for toleration of burrowmates.
Now we, as humans, we store our information as DNA in our genomes and we pass this information on to our offspring.
The offspring of the carrot juice drinking women ate more carrot-flavored cereal, and from the looks of it, they seemed to enjoy it more.
In addition to that, after the baby's born, our other unique invention as mammals is that we nourish our offspring after they're born.
A reproductive system that fails to function produces an individual that has no offspring, and that individual is then kicked out of the gene pool.
So here's a typical situation, male meets female, lots of offspring.
Now if that male is carrying a gene which causes the death of the offspring, then the offspring don't survive, and instead of having 500 mosquitos running around, you have none.
And if you can put more, I'll call them sterile, that the offspring will actually die at different stages, but I'll call them sterile for now.
If they mate successfully, then no offspring.
Horrified, my colleagues remained behind to gather his thoughts and to record whatever he could the rest of the afternoon, and that evening, he captured a remarkable event: the lone surviving male beaver swimming in slow circles crying out inconsolably for its lost mate and offspring.
But what I am going to do is tell you that the most important thing, besides all of these adaptations, is the fact that these organisms have figured out a way to do the amazing things they do while taking care of the place that's going to take care of their offspring.
And that means finding a way to do what they do without destroying the place that'll take care of their offspring.
I mean, if a female doesn't choose a particular male, or if she has the ability to store sperm and she simply has enough, then it makes more sense for her to spend her time doing other biologically relevant things: avoiding predators, taking care of offspring, gathering and ingesting food.
Now, even more interesting is the fact that elephant and hyena societies are entirely matriarchal: they're run by females, groups of females, sisters, aunts and offspring, and when young males attain sexual maturity, they're turfed out of the group.
They can take part in a kill only after everybody else, including the offspring.
Well, sex is just so much more than insert part A into slot B and hope that the offspring run around everywhere.
This caterpillar is a head-banging zombie bodyguard defending the offspring of the creature that killed it.
Each symbol is a colony, and the size of the symbol is how many offspring it had, because we were able to use genetic variation to match up parent and offspring colonies, that is, to figure out which colonies were founded by a daughter queen produced by which parent colony.
And by doing this, I was able to learn that offspring colonies resemble parent colonies in their decisions about which days are so hot that they don't forage, and the offspring of parent colonies live so far from each other that the ants never meet, so the ants of the offspring colony can't be learning this from the parent colony.
Over the time of the study, and especially in the past 10 years, there's been a very severe and deepening drought in the Southwestern U.S., and it turns out that the colonies that conserve water, that stay in when it's really hot outside, and thus sacrifice getting as much food as possible, are the ones more likely to have offspring colonies.
We discovered that females use male flash signals to try to predict which males have the biggest gifts to offer, because this bling helps the female lay more eggs and ultimately launch more of her own offspring into the next generation.
My last book was about how families manage to deal with various kinds of challenging or unusual offspring.
So in 10, 12 generations, you're going to have thousands of offspring, and millions of offspring.
So then we moved on to adult butterflies, and we started asking the question whether it's the mothers that can medicate their offspring.
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