Submitted by insink2300 t3_11drr8s in askscience
The_Magic_Tortoise t1_jadphyt wrote
Reply to comment by the__itis in Why does temperature determine the sex of certain egg laying animals like crocodiles? by insink2300
This may be ad hoc, but I could see warmer temps being a signal for environmental instability, therefore more males equals more genetic variability (more alligators), giving the population a better chance of adapting.
Cooler temps, creating more females, so as to "lock in" certain traits into the population.
IMO, systems seem to fluctuate between "searching" patterns and "chasing" patterns; robustness and efficiency, community and hierarchy, public square and tower, or as the alchemists said: solve et coagula.
You see this too in society: certain segments of society seem to follow either r or k patterns. Poorer people have more children, less neoteny shorter lives, etc.
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