Re: Differences in the Sexes


Scooter the Mighty wrote:
> Cyde Weys wrote:
> > wade.hines@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Cyde Weys wrote:
> > > > This seems to make a lot of sense to me. Personal experience dictates
> > > > to me that a horny female will never have problems finding sex. Now
> > > > horny male geeks (not that I speak from experience) find it very hard
> > > > to obtain sex. Gender equality my ass. That's why we get to make more
> > > > money, at least.
> > >
> > > That or it's tripe. An alternative bit of rationalization goes
> > > that if females have a probability to reproduce of 1 then there is
> > > less selective pressure and they will exhibit a wider degree of
> > > traits than males who are competing for an optimal state, those
> > > who are in the tails of the distribution don't mate and this
> > > tightens the distribution.
> >
> > No, one tail is unsuccessful, but the other tail is extraordinarily
> > sucessful (think playboys), which would tend to lead to a wider
> > variation of traits.
>
> I don't see how men can evolve in notably different ways than women.
> There really isn't all that much genetic difference between the
> genders.

Men can evolve separately from women because they have genes on their Y
chromosome that women simply don't have. The extreme of this is in
some exotic kind of ant where both male and female reproduce by cloning
and it appears that they are not even able to reproduce with each other
anymore! So the males and the females actually became separate
species, but they are in a beneficial relationship with each other and
wouldn't survive on their own.

> It also seems to me that if the high end of the curve were
> extraordinary successful at reproduction, the second generation would
> tend to resemble the high end of the curve and not be varied, doesn't
> it? If, for example, all the smart guys had more kids, their kids
> would be smart, not widely varying from dumb to smart.

If you look at other places in the animal kingdom there are huge
differences between the genders. I don't seem it unreasonable at all
that there could be some gene on the Y chromosome that affects
intelligence. And if all the smart guys had more kids, and the
smartness was linked to their Y chromosome, their boys might be smart
while their girls would still be normal. And the gene most likely
doesn't code for "smart" - it codes for higher variability in neuronal
linkage. This gives the capability of extremely smart offspring
provided the right nurturing and education, but it could also result in
an extremely dumb kid.

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