[mirimir]

> ... since a female mammal cannot have 200 offspring in her lifetime ...

Ah, but now she could. With enough money to pay for enough surrogates (or eventually, machines) and childcare.

So maybe, going forward, there'll be more variability in human female reproductive success. Interesting.

[quotemstr]

Yeah. Various kinds of reproductive and genomic technologies invalidate general evolutionary assumptions, but the techniques haven't been around long enough or been common enough to matter so far. But in the future? Who knows?

[haihaibye]

And if there was any kind of genetic motivation for doing that (and almost everything is partly heritable) we'd see more of those genes next generation, so likely some of her kids would go down that route too and there we go...