You are correct that my language was off. I should have said this:

“Humans are a highly sexually dimorphic species for a reason. Men are larger, stronger, faster, tougher, more logical and more focused for a reason. We evolved to produce more than we consume.”

However, you erred in your observation later:

“Men are sperm delivery machines. Our success in delivering the sperm on target is dependent on a whole slew of traits and behaviors that are constantly evaluated and weighted by women. The way in which women assess those traits is somewhat dependent on the environment and particularly on the relative availability of resources.”

Men are more than just sperm delivery machines. I don’t think that it was merely advantageous, but rather necessary for the survival of our species for men to be more than just that. My comments on the vulnerability of pregnant women and women with children stand. Such a woman cannot reasonably produce or acquire enough resources for her and the children to survive. Men evolved to fill the gap, to provide women and children with those resources. I would go so far as to argue that it was only the evolution of the human male to become a net positive producer of resources which enabled our species to survive.

Nice post .. new follower here

^for a giggle or facepalm^

You poor, poor women. These men are trying to give you exactly what you don’t want and have too much of already.

donalgraeme
Humans are a highly sexually dimorphic species for a reason. Men are larger, stronger, faster, tougher, more logical and more focused for a reason. We are meant to produce more than we consume.

Youve got that backwards. I see this a lot in discussions of evolutionary biology. Even professional academics do it. Humans are designed for…. intended to….meant to, etc.

We aren’t intended or meant to do anything. The physiology, behaviors and character traits you see in modern humans all exist because they’re reproductively favorable, not because anyone/someone intended them to be or designed them that way.

Men are sperm delivery machines. Our success in delivering the sperm on target is dependent on a whole slew of traits and behaviors that are constantly evaluated and weighted by women. The way in which women assess those traits is somewhat dependent on the environment and particularly on the relative availability of resources.

But…the ability to deliver resources ranks high amongst those traits. Though we happen to live in a time when resource provisioning is ranked by women at a historically low level thanks to big husband government.