6270 Gene Wars: r/K Selection Theory | Part 3
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Stefan Molyneux
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🗓️ 19 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, this is Defan Malineu from Freedom, Maine Radio. I hope you're doing well. Welcome to my |
| 0:04.5 | Part 3 Labor of Love. This is Gene Wars Part 3 policies. And I'm going to do a very brief summary |
| 0:13.1 | for those of you who want to cheat and start here. This is a very brief summary, of course, |
| 0:17.7 | of what has gone on in the past two presentations so that you can sort of |
| 0:21.3 | understand where we're going with here. So the basic thesis is that there is a left wing and a |
| 0:28.7 | right wing brain that correspond quite nicely to biological processes and evolutionary capacities |
| 0:36.8 | that have been well delineated throughout the history of biology, |
| 0:40.3 | and that there are basic physiological differences between these two brains, which we went into in part two. |
| 0:46.3 | So basically, let's go through this very briefly that, so for decades, two main reproductive strategies have been recognized by biologists |
| 0:56.0 | they refer to as RK selection theory. So the R strategy is an adaptation to excessive resources |
| 1:04.5 | and it generally is an evolutionary strategy pursued by prey species, rabbits, mice, deer, insects, |
| 1:10.4 | and so on. |
| 1:11.6 | And it emphasizes quantity over quality of offspring. |
| 1:15.6 | Rabbits just pump out offspring like crazy. |
| 1:18.6 | I think oysters have a hundred million eggs every single year. |
| 1:22.6 | Oyster porn never ends. |
| 1:24.6 | And because you're not going to run out of grass, you just might as well have kids as often |
| 1:29.5 | as possible, if you're a rabbit, you're just going to keep eating grass. And, you know, an owl is going to sometimes swoop down. A fox is going to grab you, a wolf is going to grab you, and so on. And so you just want to pump out as many kids because you can't fight against the wolf or the fox or the owl, you're just going to get eaten. And that's, so when you have an excess of |
| 1:48.0 | resource, because you can't fight against the wolf or the fox or the owl, you're just going to get eaten. |
| 1:45.3 | And so when you have an excess of resources, |
| 1:48.6 | in other words, you think of rabbits in a field, |
| 1:51.7 | you've got 10 rabbits or 20 rabbits in a field, |
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