It's not in her evolutionary interest to have a weak son in times of stress. He may not survive or may not be competitive for females.
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One argument is that it was conserved to help us lift buses off of pedestrians who just got hit. My belief is that nature conserved the stress mechanism because of its effect on gestation. Natural selection doesn't care about individuals, it just wants poundage and conservation of genes. It found a way to maximize the pounds and the genes.Ralph Catalano
We can never use humans to directly test out the theories. We can only make inferences based on natural observation.
Ralph Catalano
Statistically, it is clearly true compared to men, (women) are biological fortresses.
Ralph Catalano
During the Kobe earthquake in Japan, sex ratio drops. The collapse of the east German economy, sex ratio drops. The major smog in London in 1952, sex ratio dropped. Variation in the economy such that you get very bad economic times in Sweden over a century and a half, sex ratio drops.
Ralph Catalano
The weak boys got culled out and those boys that survived are hardier on average. They live longer.
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