Natural Humanists believe that, compared to every other species on Earth, all humans have evolved to become extremely intelligent, to have the capacity for unlimited love and compassion, and to have the ability to utilise the vast amount of accrued human knowledge at their disposal, to ensure that they always live their lives in ways which do not cause harm to any other human being, to any other species, or to the planet itself.
They have also evolved, unlike other animals, the ability to appreciate the wide range of hugely negative consequences of their own species’ past behaviours, on the planet and on its millions of different species and sub-species of living things, and to think deeply about how every single such negative consequence can be prevented in the future, and how negative consequences of their own and their ancestors’ past behaviour can be corrected.
Despite this, most human beings choose to live their lives as if they’ve not developed these unique skills and abilities. Instead, they behave as if they’re still a more primitive species, whose behaviour is governed solely by genetic drives and instincts, for example, to compete, to fight, or to focus only on their own needs, which are all part of their survival instinct. They even allow their choice of partner to be dictated by traditions, or by hormones and genetic instincts, which are no longer relevant in the modern world, and which result in relationships scarred by these negative behaviours, and in offspring who are more likely to inherit toxic traits and behaviours themselves.
When a baby is conceived, the genes of both parents, which are contained in their DNA, combine to form their baby’s own unique DNA, which determines things like their eventual height and eye and hair colour, but also their potentially beneficial or toxic personality traits[i].
Sex is crucial both to the continuation of our species, and to our species’ ability to continuously evolve, as it allows a human being to combine half of their own genes with half of another person’s genes. Each egg that’s released each month within a girl’s or woman’s body, has its own unique combination of genes, as does each sperm produced by boys and men, so each two combinations of sperm and egg, will always produce totally unique human beings.
Every new baby possesses certain totally new and unique variations in their genes, which lead to unique characteristics, which don’t exist in either of their parents[ii]. If any of these make them live longer, or result in them eventually having more sex (for example, due to a physically attractive appearance), or result in them producing more babies, or producing babies more likely to survive to be able to have babies themselves, this will increase the likelihood that more human beings will be created during their lifetime, all of whom will, themselves, be more likely to also have inherited this same unique and beneficial genetic variation, so that they too will produce more babies in their lifetime, all of whom will also inherit this beneficial variation, and so on[iii].
Unfortunately for our species, this means that dominant, sexually aggressive boys and men will have more sex, more babies and pass on more of their genes, and also it means that girls and women, who are genetically-programmed to be attracted to such ‘alpha’ males, will continue to be attracted to people with traits that are potentially ‘toxic’ in the modern world, unless each girl or woman makes the conscious choice, to only have sex with such boys and men when using contraception, and to only ‘mate’ and raise children with ‘non-toxic’ males, so that all future human beings gradually evolve to be less toxic, and to have traits that are potentially beneficial to our own species, and to the planet and its other natural inhabitants, like sensitivity and emotional intelligence.
Desmond Morris, in his book, ‘The Naked Ape’,[iv] suggested that nature, through evolution, may have made it more difficult for girls and women to be able to achieve orgasms during sex, compared to boys and men, so that they were more likely to be ‘rewarded’ by orgasms if they chose sexual partners, or ‘mates’, who were patient, caring, imaginative and intelligent, rather than ‘macho’ [v], something that Natural Humanists believe is hugely important, to ‘detoxify’ the future of humanity.
Natural Humanists believe passionately in polyamory, and they acknowledge that lifelong polyamory makes it easier for girls and women to spend time with, and form relationships with, a greater variety of boys and men, not just with the ‘alpha’ males that they’re driven to ‘date’ and ‘mate’ with by their genetic impulses and desires. This allows them to spend more time with ‘non-toxic’ males, allowing them to build meaningful relationships with them, and increasing the chances that they’ll choose these ‘beta’ males as the fathers of one, some or all of their children.
As such, Natural Humanists consider polyamory to be beneficial to human evolution and, potentially to the happiness of girls and women, and to the quality of life of their children, so, to Natural Humanists, when it comes to the choice of a father for their children, ‘beta’ is always better!
Natural Humanists believe that, for every human being, the final step to becoming the responsible, loving, thoughtful creatures that evolution has already given us the capacity to become, only occurs through conscious choice. They believe that the only morally acceptable option, is to choose to take this final step, from ‘the past’ to the ‘present’, and to permanently leave behind all of our species’ instinctive and genetically-driven toxic behaviours; to acknowledge that these may well have been very important during much of the 2.5 million years of human evolution, and the thousands of millions of years of evolution of the other species from which humans evolved, but now, they’re not only unnecessary, but they’re harmful, to ourselves, to other humans, and to the planet and its other natural species.
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References
[i] Drew, Chris (PhD). 50 Inherited Traits Examples. July 21 2023. helpfulprofessor.com. 2 June 2025. https://helpfulprofessor.com/inherited-traits-examples/
[ii] Wikipedia contributors. “Evolution.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 20 May 2025. 30 May. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
[iii] Wikipedia contributors. “Evolution.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 20 May 2025. 30 May. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
[iv] Morris, Desmond. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist’s Study of the Human Animal. Jonathan Cape Publishing, 1967 (Hardback: ISBN 0070431744; reprint: ISBN 0385334303).
[v] Wikipedia contributors. “Orgasm.” 20 May 2025. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 30 May 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgasm