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<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 4036108" data-attributes="member: 3146"><p>Much as westerners are loathe to talk about it openly or in mixed company, humans have a large degree of sexual dimorphism. Though there are individual differences, in general human men are both larger and stronger than human women--and quite significantly so. (Compare the average, median, and mean height and weight of men and women in any study if you doubt this--or if you want to look at extreme cases of both sexes, compare the height and weight of NBA players to that of WNBA players). That's genetics. It's not true of every real life species (and in some it even works the other way) but it is most likely one of the more significant reasons that women have not generally taken a combat oriented role in most (evolutionarily speaking) successful human societies.</p><p></p><p>But if you're looking for a reason that combatants of non-human tribes are generally male, sexual dimorphism and population growth (as mentioned before, the reproductive capability of a society is more significantly limited by the number of females than by the number of males).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 4036108, member: 3146"] Much as westerners are loathe to talk about it openly or in mixed company, humans have a large degree of sexual dimorphism. Though there are individual differences, in general human men are both larger and stronger than human women--and quite significantly so. (Compare the average, median, and mean height and weight of men and women in any study if you doubt this--or if you want to look at extreme cases of both sexes, compare the height and weight of NBA players to that of WNBA players). That's genetics. It's not true of every real life species (and in some it even works the other way) but it is most likely one of the more significant reasons that women have not generally taken a combat oriented role in most (evolutionarily speaking) successful human societies. But if you're looking for a reason that combatants of non-human tribes are generally male, sexual dimorphism and population growth (as mentioned before, the reproductive capability of a society is more significantly limited by the number of females than by the number of males). [/QUOTE]
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