Women Getting Bigger and Stronger

[RottenWillow]

Not really, that’s no the kind of evolution we’re talking about. You have to look at the reason why human males are bigger and stronger in the first place. There is nothing in biology that makes male species larger than female,

So your talking about some other kind of evolution?

All those environmental factors you mentioned are forces that drive natural selection....individuals with physical traits not advantageous to survival do not successfully breed and pass along those genetic traits to future generations of a species. Because of the relative insulation from our natural environments that society and technology affords a considerable number of the human population the only factor remaining that could prohibit propagation of a given set of genetic traits is human males consciously refusing to breed with more slightly built human females.

I don’t think the women will become more masculine or will produce more testosterone vs. estrogen (the woman’s ovaries produce estrogen and testosterone while the males testicals only produce testosterone which converts back to estrogen) so they won’t be big manly chicks they’ll just be bigger girlys.. I think??

On average men produce roughly 10x more T than women. This is why men generally have significantly more skeletal muscle. Women must have some T in order to repair skeletal muscle and in women the ovaries are the gland that provide that. However, the woman's body is specialized for making babies and that's the primary function of the ovaries. If, for whatever reason, there is too much T in a woman's bloodstream she very often becomes amenereic and that pretty quickly makes it quite difficult (if not impossible) for her to become pregnant, which would be antithetical to being female. So I cant see how women as a sex could ever end up producing as much T as men, because those genetic freaks that did would be less likely to even be able to produce offspring to whom they could pass those traits.

 

[Griz1]

Listen to Rotten. She knows what she's talkin bout.

I second her informed opinion!

 

[BoS*FLANKER]

Correct; historically natural selection has been the main drive behind evolution; but nothing in biology is 100%; the best example I can think of to illustrate this point is your appendix, it's there but it doesn't do anything; biologists think it once had a purpose but after a while it just stopped being used..this wasn't a result of natural selection, the human body didn't need it anymore so it changed..natural selection is an earlier force in evolution.. Species on this planet have been continually evolving since the dawn of time..I don't believe that the process simply stops now and we are at some final biological plateu, I'm suggesting a possibility of evolution..

I agree that the males will always produce much more testosterone, but estrogen causes tissue growth as well, the female could start producing slightly more test and then more estrogen to complement it, she can do this because the ovaries produce both.

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

i didnt see where the article said "stronger".. actually it implied weaker-- ""There is now generally more food and people take less exercise than they used to," she said.