Can natural selection be hurtfull to children?

Question

natural selection has been my undoing? Quick story... My father at the time of me being concieved. Was a US Marine who was young and ambitious. His training built him into a menacing war machine. he brought some of these thoughts with him as he came back to our home town. He then injected my mother with a spawn of his current state of mind. and between beatings he would apologize as he always did. then he left when I was six. the couple times I did see him as a kid he was very angry and brutal. when I was five years old I told myself I would never be this way. My dna and natural selection had other plans though. As A child I was smaller then the other kids but I was naturally twice as strong as the kids my age. My body would create muscles in places I didnt even know muscle could be. My nick name in elementry was "push-ups" because the teacher told us that if we used foul language we would have to do fifty pushups. So me.... I would swear at the teacher while doing pushups nonstop. I used sleeping and dreaming to curve the urges my body was having. I was smarter than all the students my age but got the worse grades. untill I graduated highschool. I think Natural Selection built me into what I am today. My job is to control it. Its job is to develop its self. I have a problem with being impulsive at times. I think it is because its natures way of being nature. My question is is there any Harmony betweent the two? Natural Selection and Self Control? In the end I think Self Control only buys you time! Because we all live and we all die.... of natural causes hopefully!

Answer 1

Actually you have a point.  Nature evolved us to optimize survival and reproduction in a far different environment than the one in which civilized people live today.  Lots of stuff about us from our attitudes to our dietary urges are not fully adapted to modern life, but evolution is way too slow to catch up.  And evolution selects for traits that make you reproduce, not for traits that make you "successful".  It used to be that being a king or a lord meant having tons of offspring, but now the most successful among us have fewer kids.  So insofar as evolution is ongoing, it's probably changing us for the worse.  Oh well, what can you do?

Answer 2

I think you misunderstand the term "natural selection" which refers to an organism's ability to survive and reproduce rather than referring to it's genetic make up.  What you are referring to is heredity.  So we inherit characteristics from our parents.  This can be either god or bad.  We all have strengths and weaknesses which we inherit either through DNA or through lifestyle choices.

So sciences doesn't yet have all the answers.

Answer 3

You obviously had some family issues growing up.  (We all have issues, some are just more significant than others)  I think what you want is to investigate psychology rather than physical science. There are two primary factors, nature and nurture.  It is usually very difficult (impossible) to assign just one or the other as the cause of a particular human behavior or belief.  Regarding our genetics vs our experience...  As of right now, we don't have much control over the genetics so look to the experience side of things.  Of course there can also be organic issues due to environmental exposure to chemicals, illness, or injury which can enter the equation.  good luck

Answer 4

okay, natural selection means that your DNA mutates in a way that allows you to survive better, therefore produce more offspring, your children have the trait survive better and have more kids, pass it on and it keeps repeating, so no being better equipped to survive can't hurt kids, probably what you are talking about is an excess of testosterone, a hormone causing muscle growth, s*x drive, sexual development, aggression, hair growth, ext. , so basically it's a chemical imbalance in the brain.