Future male world

Author: Marian Szuzman (USA), Ela Tassy, Ann O'Reilly
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: Why is being strong not always better? There are some things that men are better at than women, and this is hard to deny. For example, in sports like football or tennis, there are rarely mixed-gender matches because if there were, men would almost effortlessly defeat women. After all, millions of years ago, men were physically stronger, engaged in hunting and gathering, and today, they still carry the genetic legacy of this. Even though girls mature physically earlier, after puberty boys develop their hearts, bones, muscles, and lung capacity, and have a lower resting heart rate than girls when not exercising, making them more suited for long-duration physical activities. The famous anthropologist Desmond Morris traces many of the differences between modern men and women back to the division of labor between the sexes in primitive society. In primitive society, men went out hunting while women stayed home to take care of children, so men were stronger than women. On average, men's strength index, body mass index, and height index are 30%, 10%, and 7% higher than those of women, respectively. Their eyesight is better, and they are more suited for adventure and long-term monotonous activities. Morris strongly emphasizes the role of natural evolution and concludes: "Evolution has determined that our perspectives on life are slightly different, and this difference formed long ago and is reflected in early childhood. It has nothing to do with how we raise our children but is related to their genes." In modern society, we can still see the shadows of different skills formed by the division of labor in primitive society. Take map reading as an example. According to new research from the Paris Gestalt Institute, men are better at reading maps than women because they used to engage in hunting and gathering and needed to find their way home. The problem with men is that the speed of biological evolution is much slower than the speed of cultural and contemporary world changes. Men are physically strong and can perform heavy physical labor, which might make them very well-suited for a society based purely on manual labor. However, in today's society, the invention of weapons has eliminated the advantage of physical strength, and the emergence of office work has made interpersonal skills even more important, making men completely ill-suited for modern life. On the other hand, women are becoming aware that genetic inheritance allows them to adapt better to modern life, something their ancestors could never have imagined. In primitive society, when men went out hunting, preparing to kill something to take home for dinner, women stayed home taking care of children, learning how to prioritize household chores, and practicing verbal communication. "We know that women have stronger language skills," Morris says, "This conclusion is not based on superficial observations but on brain scans of men and women completing the same language tasks. When trying to overcome certain language barriers, women use more focused brain regions compared to men. This is a significant physiological difference in how women and men communicate verbally. If this innate ability is combined with another unique quality of women, that is, being more considerate and nurturing, it clearly explains why women can hold some important roles in social life.