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- Aug 28, 2019
Roughly men have evolved to compete over and protect women, women evolved to survive birth and give the child best chance at driving. These different mating strategies give the two genders some different attributes and many times one or other turns to be the looser on average.
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Individuals don't tend stand a chance to groups. Becoming as strong as ten men is achievement but finding twenty men is easy. It's fairly clear that most people are at their best when they are connected to multiple different people with mix all sorts of basic attributes young, old, sensitive, stoic, curious, steady, men and women.
Hell, the fact that humans even have built-in biological protections for non-reproducing females is evidence we straight-up evolved to do this. It's only humans and a handful of whales who experience menopause, and every last animal that has it also naturally lives in a "pod".
For orcas natural group size is ~40, for narwhals it's ~20, and for belugas even though they travel in groups of hundreds, within them there are "cliques" and tend to pair up with mates. For humans natural group size is ~150, with our "tribe" size sitting somewhere between 10 and 50.
For orcas natural group size is ~40, for narwhals it's ~20, and for belugas even though they travel in groups of hundreds, within them there are "cliques" and tend to pair up with mates. For humans natural group size is ~150, with our "tribe" size sitting somewhere between 10 and 50.