First of all, if you're reading this, you have winning genes. And you were the fastest swimmer. You were born a winner. How? Because somehow when life was actually really fucking tough, your ancestors were strong enough and able to adapt to survive. Your body is a combination of traits that got people laid, got them fed, kept them from drowning, etc..
Oh, you're ugly? Well your great grandfather was ugly too, but he was smart enough to accumulate resources without a modeling career. Some hungry girl decided she was pretty enough for the both of them, and a mediocre looking child with food was better than a starving, square jawed one. Remember opposites attract? Actually true sometimes.
Let's dive back into prehistory, when humans had real evolutionary pressure.
Tall guys have a few survival advantages, but not as many as you would think. Otherwise short people would not exist.
Fighting Other Humans:
Being tall in a boxing match is an advantage because you have longer reach and can throw punches without taking them.. However, once the shorter guy gets inside his reach, the tables turn. Shorter guy is able to generate more power with a shorter distance.. Taller men have longer arms and legs, which might be aesthetically pleasing to ladies, but physics of leverage dictate he will need more power to move the same amount of weight a longer distance. This is why short men tend to do better in weight lifting. Once the fight goes to the ground, a shorter guy has a greater chance of getting an arm bar, which outside of the ring means Mr. Tall just got a broken arm. The tall guy loses all fighting advantage once on the ground.
Escaping predators:
Tall people have an advantage here, as they take longer strides and are therefor faster than their shorter competition.
Remember, you don't have to be faster than the lion, just faster than your friends.
Hunting:
For a long time, hunting consisted of chasing large animals on foot until exhaustion, because human's smaller size gave them better stamina than a 500 pound elk or whatever. Again tall man is faster, so he may have a better chance of spearing the prey. His longer strides may be more efficient as well. However, he's gonna need his stronger, shorter brothers and cousins to carry the meat home. This one's a team effort.
Breeding:
Eh, let's be honest, this probably wasn't consensual most of the time in BC era.. The previous factors determined who got to breed, not the women themselves. I really don't want to try to figure out who was better at holding a paleo chick down, so let's call it a draw.
Other factors of survival are mostly environmental, disease resistance, ability to keep children alive, including having the patience not to just leave them somewhere, and other things that had nothing to do with height.
Why do (some) women choose tall guys now? To reach things on the top shelf. Short women are naturally attracted to tall guys because their brains are trying to correct for their own shortcomings, pun intended. Hungry guys become more attracted to fat women, for example.. Humans seek out averageness. Deviating from the norm is dangerous.
Nature decides what it takes to survive.
Beyond that, society placed an artificial value on tall. It looks better, makes the woman look more petite, makes the man look more dominant, etc.. "Oh but sperm banks have a height requirement" Yeah sperm banks are a business. They want their product, fucking JIZZ, to seem special and rare and precious, based on their customer's desires, which society provided for her. Again, if it were such a winning trait, it wouldn't be the minority.
PS: Humans don't always choose correctly, for example, the male brain has been tricked to believe large breasts provide more milk for their offspring, but that's not always true.
Disclaimer: I am not tall or short. I am also not an evolutionary scientist. Consider this post a hypothesis, and a reason not to care about your height, not scientific gospel.
Submitted August 28, 2018 at 09:05PM by ebaymasochist https://ift.tt/2Nt3SqS
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