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> Bigger, more muscular bodies require more fuel, so bigger men starve to death more frequently than smaller men during bad years, which all the data we have on
by deciplex 12y ago
> Bigger, more muscular bodies require more fuel, so bigger men starve to death more frequently than smaller men during bad years, which all the data we have on pre-political peoples suggest were not infrequent.
Take a group of ten males. Restrict their access to food such that eventually a few of them will die. What are some characteristics that the surviving males will share? One of them is not "they are physically weaker than the dead males".