Hey I've been playing Wind Waker a lot recently, with me being sick and all, and I'm at the point where I need to put the pearls into their respective islands (though I intend to do some exploration and sidequest first). Anyone wants to hear the radom comments that I miht have while playing ?

Ok so I'm taking those 3 notes as a yes.

WW Link big brother's aura really is unmatched. Like on his island ? Aryll obviously love him. Two children are constantly following him. He goes to another island and 4 others children just start following him to chanllenge his autority. He manage to make 2 little girls to tell him a secret rather easely.

Even the adults sense it ! I mean I was asked twice now to talk to someone Link's age/children out of some behavior.

Wind Waker Link is the ultimate big bro I rest my case.

Evolutionary biologist here! What they say is 100% true. 'Survival of the fittest' only refers to how successful an organism is at enduring their environment long enough to reproduce, and is not at all tied to the idea that those who are the 'best' are the only ones that survive. Evolution does not care if you keel over dead the second you give birth to a baby, it only cares if that baby survives long enough to breed again. What is the 'fittest' is almost entirely environmentally subjective; that's how you have creatures like horses that are basically living trainwreaks still roaming about vs something that people think would be better suited to filling their ecological niche. No genology or phenology has inherent worth over the other, all that matters is if they were capable of passing their genes on to the next generation

You know what gives us a huge evolutionary advantage, past our high cognitive ability? Our intense social bonding. Humans are outstandingly social creatures, and that has magnified all of our successes as well as our downfalls. The trait that made us the fittest for our environment wasn't just sheer dumb luck (though it was certainly partially attributed to that in some cases), it was love. We wouldn't be where we are if we didn't care enough about each other to value each life as highly as our own, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a fucking idiot.

Via @gendernewtral

THINGS THAT MAKE ME EMOTIONAL BECAUSE YES.

It's the history of our species, that we care for eachother. Human infants are born 3 months premature by the standards of most of the animal world. Why? Because the human pelvis didn't translate to upright walking very well. The pelvic opening became smaller, sampler than the head of an infant. So small that the evolutionary solution was to give birth to our young while their bones are still soft and can squish out the opening.

And the thing about premature births? They take a lot of care to keep alive and healthy. Yes, even human infants that are born early on purpose. Our species is FOUNDED on care and caretaking.

The bone and fossil records of homosapiens going all the way back Australopithecus show that bones were healed, time was taken to mend. It predates humanity as we know it and is CRITICAL to our survival still.