Science Are human beings diverging in size?

B_Ambuehl · 05-05-2014, 11:50 PM

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We have a social construct where women don't typically date guys who are shorter than them, and men don't typically date women who are taller than them.

This is less true now than a generation ago and continually less true with each future generation.

Modern human evolution more and more favors mental over physical traits (intelligence over physicality) which means all things related to masculinity (muscularity, aggressiveness, etc.) will (and already are) decreasing in the population over time. You already see this in play today. young women today favor skinny girly looking men moreso now than they did a generation or 2 ago and the average male has a ~30% lower testosterone level than a generation ago.

Eventually you can expect a scrawnier and smaller general population, as there will be no need for muscle & masculinity in modern society. Traits related to maleness really do nothing but cause problems and eventually those problems will be weeded out thru science (gene therapy) and natural selection.

View Poll Results: What is the evolution of human size?
I think social bias influences pairings, and people will eventually diverge wildly in size.	5	13.89%
I think social bias influences pairings, and there will be a minor divergence in size.	4	11.11%
I think social bias influences pairings, but there are too many confounding factors to make a difference in the long term.	11	30.56%
I don't think social bias influences pairings, so it doesn't matter.	5	13.89%
I'm thinking about how this would influence porn.	2	5.56%
Thinking like this is what got Hitler and Jimmy the Greek in trouble.	9	25.00%
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