How Men Are Evolved For Fighting According to Science
From The Art of Manliness:

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Why is it that men are more prone to violence, whether recreationally, vocationally, or criminally? Many academics would argue that it’s solely a matter of social conditioning — that men are violent and aggressive because society teaches them to be violent and aggressive.

But other researchers from the fields of evolutionary biology and anthropology suggest that while social conditioning may have some influence on male behavior, men are in many ways biologically and psychologically wired to fight.

In a 2012 paper entitled “The Importance of Physical Strength to Human Males,“ a group of academics from the fields of anthropology and evolutionary psychology compiled research from several domains that suggest that evolutionary and reproductive pressures in our distant past nudged males in our species to develop a propensity for risk taking and violence, as well as physical traits that would be valuable in violent confrontations. The features researchers think are the result of selection for fighting are those which testosterone turns on and grows — e.g., think of the way the surging testosterone in an adolescent male during puberty increases the size of his musculature and capacity for upper body strength.

Because the competition for resources and reproductive success was much more intense among males than females, being bigger, stronger, and more adept at fighting provided a big advantage for men.

Basically, the argument is that much of what makes men different than women can be chalked up to males’ need to fight other males.

The fields of evolutionary psychology and biology are often very speculative, and it’s impossible to say that X traits definitely developed for X reason. For example, there are researchers who say that the structure of the human hand developed to allow us to make a fist and punch each other better, while others say its structure evolved to allow us to make and use tools. The intersection of biology, psychology, and sociology is quite complex, and boiling down who we are to a simple matter of evolution would be short-sighted and reductionist.

Those caveats aside, the speculation is certainly fascinating to entertain! Just because you’re wired to fight, doesn’t mean you’ve got to become a full-time fisticuffer, but you might look for ways to scratch that primal itch. Plus it’s just cool to look in the mirror at your naked body in the morning, and realize that your unique features were designed for combat. You’ve got warrior DNA. It’s certainly good motivation to get to the gym and not let traits thousands of years in the making go to waste. Honor your ancestors!

Next time you’re giving yourself a look over, contemplate these features that may have been made for combat:

1. Faster mental rotation and spatial visualization. Could come in handy in a fast-changing dynamic like a fight. Researchers have made connections between play fighting and spatial visualization. Recent research has shown that women can close the gap with training, but it appears men have an inherent predisposition to this trait.

2. Broader shoulders. Allows for more forceful punching and throwing. Broader shoulders also served as a deterrent to would-be aggressors. They signaled “Don’t mess with me, I can pummel you.” Because of their signaling ability, anthropologist Richard Wrangham has said that broad shoulders “are the human equivalent of antlers.”

3. Greater upper body strength. Useful in punching, grappling, and throwing weapons (rocks, spears, etc.).

4. Larger lung capacity. Useful in high-intensity, cardiovascularly-taxing activities like fighting.

5. Stronger/denser bones, specifically in the arms. Useful in inflicting more damage on an opponent. Stronger bones mean you’re less likely to experience fractures during hard physical challenges. Greater bone strength is due to increased testosterone levels in men.

6. Faster reaction times. Quicker reflexes. Useful in avoiding punches, projectiles, and other aggressive attacks.

7. Thicker, stronger bones in the jaw, face, and neck. Stronger, thicker facial and jaw muscles and bones allow for better absorption of the energy of a punch, lessening the possibility of a broken jaw or concussion.

8. Larger hearts and higher systolic blood pressure. A larger heart and a bit higher systolic blood pressure can better pump blood to muscles during a strenuous activity like a fight. Of course, having too large a heart and too high blood pressure can be dangerous to cardiatric health.

9. More accurate throwing and blocking. Useful in throwing rocks, spears, fists, etc. in a fight as well as avoiding incoming rocks, spears, fists, etc.

10. More efficient heat dissipation/larger sweat capacity. Increases endurance during physical activity, particularly if that activity takes place in dry and extremely hot weather. While women have overall higher heat dissipation due to their decreased body mass, men’s heat dissipation is more efficient when you take into account their overall larger size.

11. Greater muscle mass and higher muscle-to-fat ratio. More muscle = more strength. Strength is certainly something you want in hand-to-hand combat.

12. Larger circulating blood volume and more hemoglobin in the blood. Increased oxygen efficiency that could come in handy while battling another. Men also have higher circulating clotting factors compared to women which leads to faster wound healing.

13. Thicker skin. Possibly aides in the prevention of wounds that may occur during physical combat.

14. Taller. Enables you to punch with more force. Punching downward rather than upwards allows you to punch with 200% more force. Taller men thus have an advantage in a fight.
lets not forget the deeper voice which projects better then a high voice over distance hence why the foghorns of the old days were deep tone so it would carry and bounce off the water, and another one about the mind we are better at focusing on one thing according to that one show on national geographic that was a battle of the sexes, which had to do with being able to hunt and fight when picking a target so to speak. 

and as for brute force, I work retail, there are times I have to haul up carts,  the ladies some of them taller then me and heavier can push up only about half I can, or the one short one her legs were pure muscle from dance and always haveing to be tiptoe to reach stuff being on her toes all the time she had calfs like a bodybuilder for her size, even she could not do as much as I could and she was pure muscle, now mind you I am a small man I man 5 foot 8 and a half inches, and my weight ballooned up to 150 lbs, usually 142, and I run but dont have all that much body mass, but I could do the work of 2 of the ladies, and one that was an actual cartpusher, she was a firebrand that did not let you push her around and young and full of muscle but even she could not move the carts around like the guys and she was in much better shape, now as far as multitasking the ladies of the front end carry on a conversation and still ring stuff up faster then me even though I fill myself up on caffine and try as hard as I can to go as fast when I have to run a checkout, and they are double my speed without batting and eyelash, just for comparison.

we are differant but we traditional catholics already knew that dispite what society tells us.
Reminds of the guy who 'transitioned' to the female sex, entered women's MMA-fighting, and ended up severly injuring his (female) opponent because of the power difference.
This "science" is a waste of money. In fact its not really science at all. It's idiocy masquerading as science to support a feminist agenda. The next headline will read "Science Proves Men are Violent and Should Be Controlled By Women." It is ironic how the "conclusion" of every study done on women is peachy and optimistic, but the ones done on men the exact opposite. That is what you get when a bunch of leftists are given the resources to promote vagina politics.
It's not usually the case, but I have to wonder if you and I even read the same article
(03-21-2016, 09:28 PM)dcmaccabees Wrote: It's not usually the case, but I have to wonder if you and I even read the same article

You gotta read between the lines my friend. To say that just because a man is physically built for more rigor than women that doesn't mean God built men for WAR! Of coarse strength can be used to win a war, but the purpose of strength is NOT to fight wars. War is a product of sin and men were still physically stronger than women pre-sin so the divine purpose of strength is NOT WAR! The purpose of strength is to symbolize God's power and might. Articles like these are the groundwork for feminist to go onto the next study to say "previous studies show men have big muscles therefore they are dangerous and in need of controlling." It is called "getting your ducks in a row." Social "science" papers with value judgments are junk science if you can call them science at all!

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