How does Yuriorkis Gamboa get so jacked/muscular?

I see. Let me know if I'm summarizing your message correctly. All the advancements of mankind has made natural selection more efficient. The difference now is that strong is defined by one's socioeconomic status instead of physicality like the past.

 

Physicality is always going to play a part, even if on a sub-conscious level (we're attracted to symmetry), but essentially, yeah, we've warped natural selection/evolution through the artificial constructs of civilization thanks to our freakishly advanced frontal lobes

 

you are making the often used assumption that weak = frail.

the phrase "survival of the fittest" which most amateur athletes love to spout to themselves, does not imply to greater size, height, bodyfat percentage etc. it's to fit your surroundings. when a finch has a longer thinner beak to get into tree bark to get bugs where as the other less thinner denser heavier beak to break nuts wouldn't last as long.

 

He is 5'5 at the most...he'll be pretty stocky at 126 plus.

 

Economic strength in our society is a dominant form of fitness. I'm not talking about athleticism at all. It's a side benefit that the economically powerful are healthier in general.

 

has the way men made selections change much throughout all of these advancements?:think

 

Sure as **** changed the way women make selections since the time of the neanderthals and pre-civ sapiens

 

false


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen's_Hypothesis


"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

 

That's relevant in every way to animal evolution, and relevant to human evolution in terms of our survival among other competing lifeforms even today (parasites, most markedly), but it doesn't deal with the more abstract concept of multi-generational progress and the effects of evolution thanks to civilization. It's not so simple to apply evolutionary theory to the current, ongoing state of humans--only leading up to homo sapiens (or the primarily sapiens hybrid most of us probably are). A lot of what I've said pertains more to sociology than biology, admittedly.

 

genetics, diet and HARD WORK!!!!!

 

Thanks CHEF.

Now can you tell us why Wlad has such a weak chin?

 

yeah..of course. but when you said we have warped natural selection. we havent at all. it's doing what it has been doing since the soup. the selfish gene still pissing over our lobes as we type.

which is why the Red Queen hypothesis was relevant i thought. that even with these massive health/nutrition benefits that we are enjoying. we still are fitting in to our ever changing surroundings. even when competition and ease of living is pretty remote now. that we are still trending bit by bit.



i was just trying to undo this myth of "oh hes black so he is naturally like that"


yeah society made most of him not nature

 

This thread is full of ****ing gay

 

Yeah, I agree. Honestly, I'm being rather philosophical. Humans have in a lot of ways rewritten the rules and influenced our progression in unnatural ways that other species lack the ability to do, but there are certainly underlying fundamentals that will never change, like you say.

 

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