/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12003016
pretty sure tallness is sexually selected for

>>12003016
In most environments there isn’t one. Its prevalence is the result of an in-progress Fisherian runaway.

>>12003016
>Ranked 2nd on Glamour's top 50 sexiest men list, according to wiki
>5 ft 9 in, which is 1 inch taller than me
>vapid whores still treat him like shit just for his height
Wow I literally want to kill myself.

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>>12003435
It musts be so hard to be heterosexual

>>12003478
What a petty comment.

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>>12003478
Why does this culture hide emotional feelings? It is un American! There are many un American things that are American. America is the world.

>>12003016
Power over manlets.

Why no credit for kek?

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>>12003016
Less likely to be eaten by predators and bigger reach, it develops from living in cold areas with a carnivorous diet everything gets bigger. Dying early, aging faster and health problems though make it a disadvantage just as much.

>>12003547
Thats actually kind of a White pill just don't be ugly, poor and short. Good looks average height > average looking and tall.

>>12003554
thats how you get stabbed and killed by a 5ft mexican. Just ask marines that try to pull that shit at city bars

>>12003660
>manlet pulls a knife
>can't reach you with it

>>12003450
Ultimate manlet cope. Instead of not getting laid at home youll have a few extra years to not get any at a retirement home.

>>12003016
If you've ever done boxing or kendo you'd know how huge an advantage height is. Having longer arms, and having your shoulders be level with your opponent's head; both allow you greater range in a fight.

>>12003723
I've met and worked with a few former British SAS soldiers and all of them were short and stocky.

>>12003752
SAS don't usually operate unarmed or with swords.

>>12003024
we all know that you idiot, he was asking why

>>12003752
what does that have to do with arm reach in boxing?

>>12003713
retirement homes are full of old ladies those short kings will be up to their eye glasses in bitches

>>12003016
>he doesnt know
are you 15yo?

>>12003016
We're not really getting taller, so from an evolutionary standpoint, maybe there is no advantage. The increases you see in height are primarily due to better childhood nutrition, not genetic selection, and the height increase across the population stops once nutritional requirements have been met. So from that standpoint, height does signal that you were adequately fed, which plays a role in physical development besides height.

>>12003796
>Coping this hard

I met a girl on tinder and she couldn’t get over how attractive I was, kept asking why I was single
Asked me how tall I was and I said 5’8 (mind you she was 5’4) and she just responded with “hahaha that’s so short”
Then I deleted tinder and haven’t attempted to date again for 3 years now.

>>12003016

> see more

>>12003547
>sources: telegraph.co.uk, dating sites and blogs, also my incel ass
is there anything more pathetic than blackpillshitters?

>>12004927
Maybe try meeting girls who aren't whoring on the internet. If you seek out whores, you'll only ever meet whores.

>>12004720
Why does this occur? Is it that tall human was the default and limited agriculture diet stunted growth throughout history? Do wild animals raised in captivity grow larger than their wild peers as well?

>>12003554
What a fucking cunt. That warrants a fist to the face

>>12003450
kek I bet the authors are manlets

>>12003547
>$670 usd
lmao

>>12003658
>just don't be ugly, poor and short
>only one thing you can change and even so it's a shitload of effort
how is that not a blackpill?

>>12005278
It's pretty ironic that manlets all have such violent attitudes when they're actually too small to represent a genuine threat.

>>12005404
Sometimes the pain of the manlet is outweighed by the rage of the facecel, other times the converse holds. It varies between men as to which will predominate in their hearts.

>>12003016
ability to run faster and track down a kill for longer distance with less effort

>>12005270
>Why does this occur?
Protein, or lack of protein, especially animal protein. The best modern examples are the growth in the Chinese, especially northern Chinese (transitioning from a very grain heavy diet to a more protein rich diet), as well as the height difference between N. Koreans (very underfed) and S. Koreans. Native Americans were very tall, much taller on average than the European settlers. By the late 1800's, Americans were considered the tallest in the world thanks to the abundance of food available. During the 20th century, American heights plateaued and even declined, while many countries saw a height boom over the same time frame.

being taller makes you better at combat. also >>12005438

>>12003450
>the universe even gave manlets a bigger life expectency so they can suffer for longer

>>12004927
>hahaha that's so short
>for you.

>>12003016
sexual selection

>>12003713
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>>12005451
Did a short man fuck your mother or something? You seem to have a lot of hatred.
>>12003723
good luck with your boxing when your kneecaps kicked in or youve been punched in the throat

>>12005467
fuck

>>12004927
dude you did not have to wait three years

Being tall used to mean something. There is something called the square-cube law. When an object increases in size, it's volume increases at a faster rate, requiring greater structural power just to maintain strength parity with a smaller object.

This is where understanding the optimal size of a design comes into play. For humans, height used to matter as it indicated whether or not the individual had access to a reliable food source. We're conditioned to looking at larger members of society as the ones with the competitive edge in survival. However, with the advent of agriculture, this ceased meaning anything. The discriminatory tendencies still exist, but we're in a point in our civilization where being tall is actually a bad thing.

Tall was relatively meaning 5'9" as a large member of society. At 5'7" I would be classified among the largest members the Roman world for instance.

Animals have an optimal height, and for human males, that is between 5'6" and 5'9". Anything above that starts to become a hindrance.

Power becomes exceedingly difficult to produce for taller humans. Before I quit going to the gym for my master's studies, I was pushing roughly 100 kg (220 lbs) in a bench press while weighing 77 kg (170 lbs). Not exactly power lifter territory, but it's decently fit. My arm span is 54 centimeters, so to push that 100 kg, I produce 529.7 joules of energy. If we take a person at 6' in height and a similar proportion body shape (limb length, body fat, etc), that 6' person could only move 92 kg of weight. The extra 3 inches in height just cut the effective work by 8%. To equal the same mass output at 6', the individual has to produce 569 joules of energy. A hypothetical individual scaled up to 6' would also weigh 96 kg (211 lbs). A taller individual has to effectively put on nearly 24% more mass than I do just to make up for physics and biology. In effect, it takes far less effort for the shorter me to keep up with the power output or a taller individual.

>>12007204
ok manlet

The numbers only get worse as the height increases. The survival problem here should be apparent. A 5'7" human needs significantly fewer calories to be able to physically compete with a larger human. The only reason the shortest of us aren't dominating the globe is due to leverage effects of being taller. The taller individual enjoys more leverage, but the food intake to maintain that leverage increases rapidly with height. Should we have an interruption of food security in the Western countries, the first people who will start to suffer are the tall people.

Additional problems of getting much taller than 5'9" is a deteriorating lifespan and increased instances of diseases. Taller humans are actually quite a bit less hearty than shorter ones, which means that taller humans are much more reliant on a robust, modern health care system to survive - also indicative of why humans have been getting taller with the advent of advanced medicine in the early 20th century - tall people can now survive better. From heart disease to joint deterioration, tall people don't age well. People who survive past 90 are disproportionately made of people who were not tall in their primes.

Humans above and beyond 5'9" are basically the show animals of our species, much like large purebreed dogs. And if we look at large dogs, after normalizing for inbreeding effects, they live shorter and more problematic lives than smaller brethren. Tall people exist because it looks good, such as body builders who don't look good short.

So, in effect, stop worrying about being short and start thinking up of why its such a huge advantage. You'll live longer, life is physically easier for you and you're far less likely to live out the twilight years of your life with debilitating diseases.

>>12007208
Good argument lanklet

>>12003016
Well, for any manlets who are interested: HDAC4 inhibitors might reactivate your chondrocytes (the same cells that make up your growth plates) and while supplementing an AI blocker (to prevent premature senescence) could potentially allow you to grow a few centimetres pass adulthood.

Antarctic krill peptide might be an excellent addition with this hypothetical stack as well.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32532190/

>>12003658
>tfw ugly, poor, short and now balding

somebody pls kill me

>>12007211
>The taller individual enjoys more leverage, but the food intake to maintain that leverage increases rapidly with height. Should we have an interruption of food security in the Western countries, the first people who will start to suffer are the tall people.
Don't worry about us, we'll just "leverage" a few manlets around and they'll give us their food.

>>12007204
>Nooooo, being taller makes it harder to bench!!1!1!!
I'll gladly give up 20kg at the bench just to be able to see past the person in front of me in a crowd.