Two Men of Very Different Means
Let’s imagine the lives of two very different men.
The first was born to a single mother. As a boy he grows up without knowing who his father is except the little his mother tells him. He struggles with the effects of poverty, second hand clothes from the charity shops, the unhealthiest microwave meals, and a mother who I barely home as she works two jobs to support them both. His schooling suffers his teachers who are all women, consistently mark him down, he finds it difficult to concentrate and has trouble controlling his temper. He consistently fails his classes, and returns home to his mother who becomes more and more disappointed with him. He internalises this a begins to feel that he will never be a success; will never have a good job and will probably end up committing crime, and ending up in prison being raped. He begins to exercise and workout, the only thing he enjoyed in school. He grows his body but not his mind, becoming a strapping young ladies man.
The second is born to a mother who was married to his father but the relationship turned sour a couple of years after his birth. Eventually shared custody is arranged amicably so the boy is allowed to see his father for several days every week. While the pair are not well off they at least still have some spare time to dedicated to their child. The father spends his time with his child helping him with his maths homework, or reading to him, or playing sports with him. The boy concentrates in school better, eats healthier food, and watching how his parents interact had strangely shown him how to control his temper, and be polite to people even through significant differences. He succeeds in school, passes his classes and his parents work to put him through college where he studies structural engineering, after graduating he settles down with a women, before having his own children.
What does these two very different stories tell? Well they tell the stories of the two types of men that women want.
The first boy lacking in intelligence or education lives his life using the only thing he has left, his looks and his body. He goes through women who care little about his personality or ability to hold down a decent job. He leaves a trail of broken relationships and children in his wake, unintentionally recreating the life of his own father whom he never met.
The second offers a more stable proposition and although not unattractive he was never chased by women like the first man. He chased them, but it wasn’t until he graduated and gained a stable well paying job did he find a woman who was interested in settling down. His children raised by a loving father and mother, just like his father had treated him before.
The difference between these two hypothetical men and their evolutionary impact can be seen in the distribution of intelligence in the population. Intelligent men have to rely less on their attractiveness to reproduce and can instead offer stability and resources to their mates but their children's success relies on the father being present to help raise and provide. While the most attractive men rely little on their intelligence but can still reproduce successfully, but he doesn't need to concern himself with education and resources, these days imparting the raising of his children fully to the mother and perhaps the state.
These traits are not chosen by the men themselves though, it is sexual selection in its truest form. Women have chosen and selected the most attractive mates, slowly evolving men to fit in with the requirements of human reproduction over time. This caused IQ to become more and more divided between the extremes of the male population, the only point that encouraged the general drift of IQ upwards is the demand for those rarest of men, those few that combine both attractiveness and intelligence. Resources and health.
The first was born to a single mother. As a boy he grows up without knowing who his father is except the little his mother tells him. He struggles with the effects of poverty, second hand clothes from the charity shops, the unhealthiest microwave meals, and a mother who I barely home as she works two jobs to support them both. His schooling suffers his teachers who are all women, consistently mark him down, he finds it difficult to concentrate and has trouble controlling his temper. He consistently fails his classes, and returns home to his mother who becomes more and more disappointed with him. He internalises this a begins to feel that he will never be a success; will never have a good job and will probably end up committing crime, and ending up in prison being raped. He begins to exercise and workout, the only thing he enjoyed in school. He grows his body but not his mind, becoming a strapping young ladies man.
The second is born to a mother who was married to his father but the relationship turned sour a couple of years after his birth. Eventually shared custody is arranged amicably so the boy is allowed to see his father for several days every week. While the pair are not well off they at least still have some spare time to dedicated to their child. The father spends his time with his child helping him with his maths homework, or reading to him, or playing sports with him. The boy concentrates in school better, eats healthier food, and watching how his parents interact had strangely shown him how to control his temper, and be polite to people even through significant differences. He succeeds in school, passes his classes and his parents work to put him through college where he studies structural engineering, after graduating he settles down with a women, before having his own children.
What does these two very different stories tell? Well they tell the stories of the two types of men that women want.
The first boy lacking in intelligence or education lives his life using the only thing he has left, his looks and his body. He goes through women who care little about his personality or ability to hold down a decent job. He leaves a trail of broken relationships and children in his wake, unintentionally recreating the life of his own father whom he never met.
The second offers a more stable proposition and although not unattractive he was never chased by women like the first man. He chased them, but it wasn’t until he graduated and gained a stable well paying job did he find a woman who was interested in settling down. His children raised by a loving father and mother, just like his father had treated him before.
The difference between these two hypothetical men and their evolutionary impact can be seen in the distribution of intelligence in the population. Intelligent men have to rely less on their attractiveness to reproduce and can instead offer stability and resources to their mates but their children's success relies on the father being present to help raise and provide. While the most attractive men rely little on their intelligence but can still reproduce successfully, but he doesn't need to concern himself with education and resources, these days imparting the raising of his children fully to the mother and perhaps the state.
These traits are not chosen by the men themselves though, it is sexual selection in its truest form. Women have chosen and selected the most attractive mates, slowly evolving men to fit in with the requirements of human reproduction over time. This caused IQ to become more and more divided between the extremes of the male population, the only point that encouraged the general drift of IQ upwards is the demand for those rarest of men, those few that combine both attractiveness and intelligence. Resources and health.
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