[twobitshifter]

I wouldn’t say self destruct, your body and your child’s body and your grandchild’s body are all a continuation of the same organism. Selection favors clearing out the old dead mutated cells and that is just extending to bodies as well. If we conceptualize ourselves as separate from our descendents, we think we’re dying, but if we procreate our cell line lives on, which is the only outcome which matters to evolution.

[ryeights]

That is exactly the theory.

As an individual it honestly doesn’t matter that much to me if my cell line continues on. I will still be dead.