If the driving force behind natural selection is to pass on our genes, why do some people choose to adopt children?
A) Traits learned by adopted children will become encoded in their genes and passed on.
B) Society rewards people for being "unselfish."
C) It doesn't matter whose children you raise as long as the species survives.
D) In the past, a positive behavioral response to parenting led to the passing on of more of that allele.

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In the past, individuals who had a positive response to parenting, even if it involved non-biological children, may have been more successful in passing on their genes indirectly by supporting the survival of the group or kin, which could include relatives sharing some of their genes.

If the Driving Force Behind Natural Selection Is to Pass