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Only if the deaths (or more correctly: any effects harsh enough to impede mating) happen before the typical age of becoming a parent. If it's just "live healthy to very old age" vs "cancer at fifty", then there is no selection bias since our anecdata here is based on the next generation.



Even if he successfully birthed a child, the child wouldn't come here to tell a survivor story if he died of cancer at 50 (probably)




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