So what makes you think that in a random war only the tallest people will survive? Only the people best at hiding / people from particular tribes will survive, who will come in a variety of shapes and sizes. It can even be determined by pure luck.
why do you think height is a desirable trait in men?
Secondly, in modern warfare strength and height offer very little advantage, having more numbers to your side and better technology is what determines success.
I agree but this has had no impact on our evolutionary history. Height being a desirable trait has been hardwired into our brains through millions of years of evolution.
Actually most genes survive, only the weakest die out, like Rationalizer said. Sometimes there is a rare catastrophe in which only the 'fittest' genes survive. E.g in time of dinosaurs, an asteroid/meteor hit the earth, killed most of the species, but the smallest species of that time i.e mammals were the ones that were the most adapted to that environment, and hence they were the ones who lived on.
right but humans and other mammals also compete with each other for the priviledge of mating with a female. The winner gets to reproduce the loser doesnt.
Hence, intelligence is the most important trait for human survival, not physical strength.
stephen hawking is very intelligent. I don't think he could do very much to stop me from killing him though.
Yea but his part of the world is now one of the most backward. The war he created destroyed a lot of his own countrymen and all the years wasted in wars because of his actions.
civilisations rise and fall. while he was alive it was a huge empire. Also the proof is in the pudding that his reproductive strategy was a success.
Of course there was, because if you take a random sample of nazis and random sample of gypsies, there will be a few weak people and a few strong people, a few intelligent and a few dumb people in both groups. Like I said, no human ethnicity based group is inferior to another group as a whole.
In terms of height and muscle mass would you say that japanese people are equal to nigerians?
In terms of explosive speed do you think japanese people are equal to nigerians?
There is a reason why there are no japanese or white sprinters in the olympics.
They were never one of the most advanced. Where are you getting your stats from? Ancient greeks and romans were advanced,
My point was that there civilisation was very advanced and they were able to pull of engineering marvels but nowadays egypt is nothing special.
It was a point to say that civilizations rise and fall. It happened to the egyptians the romans the greeks and the mongolians.
then they got into religion, hence wars, hence less scientific progress. In both cases the point is that war retards human progress.
war paves the way for scientific advancement. Arabs who had no knowledge of anything conquered lands and started a golden age of science.
Topic: Evolution and Morality