Vaniver comments on When does heritable low fitness need to be explained? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 10 June 2015 02:10:33PM 4 points [-]

Right--as well, the standard complaint about extending this logic to humans is that the most credible increased fertility effect for female relatives is desire-based. But it's easy for women to get pregnant more frequently and have more children--the hard part is keeping those children fed until they're self-sufficient, and dividing your wealth among all your children, neither of which it seems gay uncles help with enough to explain the effect.