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This seems to be consistent with the principle that nature experiments with males but plays conservatively with females. I don't think it's an accident that bot
by luckydata 7y ago
This seems to be consistent with the principle that nature experiments with males but plays conservatively with females. I don't think it's an accident that both the smartest AND the dumbest people in any population will be males. Females play too important of a role for the specie, while males are very expendable so they can afford to try more dangerous things more often. If a male is removed from the genetic pool it's easy to make up for him, while losing a female reproductively is a tragedy.
- y4mi 7y agoThat's not how evolution works though. It's not about what's best for a species. It's about which individual breeds how much before death. And looking at it from that point of view makes it even more straightforward. Especially if you consider that historically approximately 80% of males died without having offspring.
- spectrum1234 7y agoThis is actually not true. It's about whats best for the gene. If a gene in a male has a higher standard deviation than in a female, this can all be explained at the gene level.