Posted: Feb 16, 2017 1:50 pm
by Rumraket
Macdoc wrote:

I'll take OEs stance over yours anyday.... :coffee:

That would be silly.

Citing a particular, very rare and completely cultural example does not alter the biological fact that Homo Sapiences is not a eusocial species. Most people, for most of human history, who procreated, succeeded in procreating regardless of social or economic status. The farmer had children, just as the nobleman did. The farmer CAN have children, even when for whatever reason he refrains from it.

A eusocial species is one in which there is an entire class that never reproduces because they physically can't, because they have evolved not to. The fact that a species of sentient organisms can artificially mimic this pattern through some set of synthetic cultural rules, doesn't make it into a eusocial species.