Why are men naturally physically stronger than women?
Men and women have two different survival strategies. Evolution is all about reproductive fitness, or who can have the most children that survive to have children themselves. Women can only bear a few children in their lifetimes, while men can impregnate pretty much as many women as they want. As a result of this, men have evolved to compete against other men for who gets the rights to the most women. These roots in reproductive strategy can be seen clearly by looking at the animal kingdom. Among warm-blooded animals, the parent who raises the children tends to be physically smaller and less naturally muscular, while the parent who has to compete for this limited supply of mates is bigger and stronger. There’s one interesting bird species in which this is reversed; females lay eggs all the time and leave them for the fathers to take care of. As a result, in this species females are the bigger and more aggressive sex. Women ARE stronger than men in some important ways. Women have higher
