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Biologically speaking, is it more optimal for humans to be in a shorter or taller?

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 18:12:37 2021 No.13603336 View Reply Original Report

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Some studies stay tall people are healthier while others say short people are healthier. Let's clarify "short" being the range of 5'0-5'6, and "tall" being 5'10-6'4. I'm not referring to midgets and giants but just generally short or tall people who are still in a normal range.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:14:31 No.13603341 Report

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>>13603336
If humans were the size of ants we could not bake bread or smelt iron in an economic way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:16:21 No.13603349 Report

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>>13603336
There are both tall and short people thriving in different continents and environments. Your incel obsession, as well as women that claim to have some all seeing eye for genes, are all retarded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:17:02 No.13603350 Report

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>>13603341
That stinks. But we could carry 40 times our weight and survive high drops.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:19:58 No.13603361 Report

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>>13603336
Let me say this, go outside and tell me where all old tall people are

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:21:36 No.13603369 Report

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>>13603336
It starts being measurably counterproductive and damaging to your health past a certain point, but women don't care, because they're programmed to be attracted to spandrel traits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:21:38 No.13603370 Report

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>>13603336
The more optimal is the medium 5.7-5.10

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:23:20 No.13603375 Report

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>>13603361
probably bob evans

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:26:40 No.13603393 Report

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>>13603361
I think you're generally right BUT I live in area with a lot of old people and work at a grocery store: I see plenty of tall old people. The one monkey wrench is that it's hard to tell exactly HOW old they are. It's not like I can ask.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 18:30:17 No.13603403 Report

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Ideal white or black Chad is about 6'3"
6' if Jewish or Chinese
neither of the four phenotypes is better, just referring to max optimum heights.
If you get too much taller than that you get diminishing returns unless sportsball.
If you get too much shorter you have to prove yourself at every step and feel the need to try to manipulate the bastard tall people.
t. mutant giant

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Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 20:35:35 No.13603801 Report

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>>13603336
If you are short then they can't spot you in the tall grass when you hunt thots

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 20:42:28 No.13603815 Report

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5 11 tall person here, thought I was a manlet till now, AMA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 20:43:47 No.13603818 Report

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>>13603361
humans got really tall just recently. There just weren't that many tall people just a generation ago because of malnutrition / lack of complete overnutrition. My niece is 11 and unironically as tall as me kek.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 20:44:39 No.13603820 Report

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My paternal grandad is 5'7" and has no major health problems, but my maternal grandfather is 6'4" but is so hunchbacked he looks more like 5'11", has joint problems and cancer

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 20:45:08 No.13603822 Report

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>>13603393
old people also have bad posture and probably lose some of the spinal disk flexibility, actually losing some height in the process.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 20:46:10 No.13603827 Report

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>>13603820
confirmed, women are literal cancer!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 20:47:54 No.13603834 Report

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Biologically speaking? It is better to be taller in your youth and shorter past that. The tradeoff is social attention verse longevity. Both of which have subjective priority in each individual.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 22:04:46 No.13604017 Report

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>>13603403
is being a chad really the biologically best way to be, or only the socially best? The philosophically best?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 22:16:11 No.13604038 Report

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It would depend on the environment. In places where food resources are limited/high competition, being smaller is an advantage as you consume less and can survive on less. Where food resources are not a problem and competition between humans for food is non existent, we get taller.

A real life example of this is the height difference between an average North Korean and an average South Korean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 22:37:22 No.13604105 Report

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>>13603336
>Some studies stay tall people are healthier
reaching your genetically coded height is healthier.
genetically shorter people live longer.

3rd worlders for example, are environmentally short.

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Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 22:41:09 No.13604118 Report

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>>13603403
>6' if Jewish or Chinese
Northern Chinese are 5'9" and still growing fast.
For reference, German male height is close to 5'11".

Additionally, calcium and red meat consumption is still a lot lower in China.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Sep 2021 23:21:30 No.13604218 Report

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It's more resource efficient to be smaller, optimal depends on too many other factors.

>>13603403
If you weren't born unfortunate looking you'd understand why it doesn't matter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 01:53:20 No.13604557 Report

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>>13603375
Pretty darn good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 01:57:06 No.13604567 Report

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>>13604218
>If you weren't born unfortunate looking you'd understand why it doesn't matter.
I would have much different personal feelings about height. I have some issues.
However, the post wasn't meant to include any of my own opinions. If it came across that way, I may have miswritten.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 02:15:57 No.13604624 Report

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>>13603336
The real growth pill is you do not see many tall old people walking around.

Lankys will cope and tell you that people shrink as they age.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 02:21:24 No.13604637 Report

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>>13603350
All things considered that does not seem like a fair trade.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 17:37:30 No.13606696 Report

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Its most optimal for women to be tall and men to be small

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 20:47:44 No.13607352 Report

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>>13603403
6’7 here and seriously regretting that I’m not some kind of basketball player, although i never liked basketball. I played soccer but got too tall and lanky and got injured aswell

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 23:24:29 No.13607830 Report

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It could work similar to leaves with volume to surface area ratios. In more humid climates, you could get away with taller frames, but in drier climates, being shorter (succulent, if you will) may be more advantageous to minimize water loss.

That being said I fucking love the rain.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 23:32:08 No.13607862 Report

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>>13603361
>>13604624
Damn! gg

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 05 Sep 2021 23:40:24 No.13607886 Report

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>>13603336

I'm sure short people are healthier and live longer. the people that live longest live in east asia and mediterranean islands.

but would you prefer living to age 95 without a great sex life in your physical prime, or living to age 80 while having a great sex life as a teenager and young adult (perhaps all the way until your late 40s)?

Many people will choose the great sex life.

Being short is a great advantage in times of famine, food scarcity, or food not being very nutritive. So, in a post apocalyptic future short men may gain the upperhand again. But with a western lifestyle with supermarkets, being tall is probably better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 02:15:18 No.13608245 Report

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>>13607886
Wait but studies have shown shorter people have more sex.

Mrrandom

Mrrandom Mon 06 Sep 2021 02:29:39 No.13608277 Report

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I think it's because the taller you are the stronger you have the potential to be. Taller guys might have bigger Weiner's as well. So yeah.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 02:34:23 No.13608289 Report

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>>13603336
you guys are sad. it's simple- learn a trade or do something to make a decent income and you will find a girl.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 05:19:43 No.13608610 Report

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>>13603336
Short people live longer and stay young longer (bad backs etc) but tall men especially have so many social and even by extension economic benefits its never worth it to be a manlet and it gets worse for them every year.

Not oushing your sons to growthmax in the 21st century is abuse.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 05:32:49 No.13608631 Report

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>>13603336
Short people consume less.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 05:49:48 No.13608671 Report

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>>13603336
In a hunter gatherer society I imagine being tall was biologically advantageous in hunting, physically dominating other members of your tribe, or fighting off invaders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 05:57:55 No.13608686 Report

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Cope and seethe shorty. Virgin forever because short keeping coping.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 07:22:33 No.13608785 Report

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>>13603336
If it makes you more likely to reproduce successfully,
it’s an advantage

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 10:51:30 No.13609179 Report

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>>13603361
Fucking your mom

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 10:55:14 No.13609189 Report

Quoted By: >>13609731

>>13603336
Short woman good
Short man bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 11:36:45 No.13609250 Report

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>>13603336
>tfw you are 5'11 and you shop with your wife in the kids section of the clothes shop
I'M sick and tired of this! I'M AN ADULT! Why am I forced to buy my clothes in the kids section? 5'11 is normal height!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 14:48:52 No.13609731 Report

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>>13609189
Opposite

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Sep 2021 14:52:32 No.13609745 Report

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I've heard every inch above 6 foot 2 takes a couple years off your lifespan.

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