The father guards the nest and fans it with his pectoral fins until the children are able to shift for themselves. Then he eats them. He does this because of his altruistic (parental) instinct. The higher one rises in the vertebrate scale the more altruistic one becomes. The higher vertebrates are just one mass of altruism.


The Three-Spined Stickleback - How to Become Extinct (1941)

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The father guards the nest and fans it with his pectoral fins until the children are able to shift for themselves. Then he eats them. He does this...

The father guards the nest and fans it with his pectoral fins until the children are able to shift for themselves. Then he eats them. He does this...

The father guards the nest and fans it with his pectoral fins until the children are able to shift for themselves. Then he eats them. He does this...

The father guards the nest and fans it with his pectoral fins until the children are able to shift for themselves. Then he eats them. He does this...