Re: Differences in the Sexes


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.

Slow down cowboy. If the trait is height, perhaps both the short
and the extremely tall are equally rejected.

Perhaps the extremely thin and the extremely fat. This is a
classical form a selection that tightens a distribution.

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