Why are females more powerful and larger than males in certain species while in others they are smaller and weaker?
In: Biology
This might get flagged as “low effort”, but the honest answer is “why wouldn’t they be?”
It reminds me of that anecdote I heard on the show QI once where Stephen Fry (I believe) asked why the two best sports fishers at the time were women. “Why not?” was the answer.
It is a very ‘male centric’ way of looking at things when we feel the need for an explanation when women (or females in case of other species) are not bigger, better, faster, more, but the honest answer is while in the species “Homo sapiens” males tend to be physically bigger and stronger than the females, there is absolutely no reason why this would be the case in, say, spiders, parakeets or cuttlefish.
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