Sex fits in with long-term survival: reproduction.

Pre-401K survival plan: children. Lots of 'em.

P.S.

They make good remotes, too.
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein