Human biological characteristics can rise and fall in terms of evolutionary importance in the same way that nation states do.
For example: historically, high testosterone men have climbed to the top of the social hierarchies. However, in the digital age, lower testosterone men will dominate by being more adaptable to a sedentary lifestyle.
I wonder what other biological traits this applies to? #asknostr
Testosterone also promotes the ability to stay calm and concentrate for long periods. Low-T men struggle with that. T wears a lot of hats.
Levels are also substantially dependent on your perceived position in your social dominance hierarchy.
That's a fair point. I definitely don't think anyone with zero T is going to thrive 😂. But the overall trend is too strong to ignore
Not trying to be contrarian, but I expect ~0% downregulation in the genetic influences on T levels. Its just too useful for social/intellectual work.
Cortisol, though, that I could see being down-regulated, at least the receptors in many tissues. Activating immune cells and prepositioning them to the skin is not a useful response to monthly sales figures coming in low!
You sound like you know more than me so I appreciate your comments 🤝
This is a fascinating concept and I think it has huge implications. The problem though, seems to be women's inability to find attractive low t men, resulting in falling birthrates and male loneliness. Eg, women who want 'a high t man' despite that not being in the best interests of the man. She doesn't think about what is good for the man though, she goes with her desire (as, arguably, she should).
And not sure I agree with the claim that ability of men to adapt to a sedentary lifestyle results in their automatic success. Yes, they may not lust after woman in the same way, but they are still likely to feel a profound loneliness and ennui wothout a romantic partner, and their low t might result in their inability to mitigate this through even casual encounters.
So we're left with a majority of men who are quite well adapted to survive in such a society in some sense, but quite unable to find a partner. The question then becomes why they would continue to contribute to such a society. And I think the answer is that they will stop paying tax, in the hope that the state collapses, anarchy ensues, and we go back to traditional gender roles where a single man again fulfils the multiple roles that technology, the state and high t men provide to them separately at the moment.
I expect you are right about that.
Interestingly, its only in the West (and a couple of Westernising East-Asian countries) where male Testosterone levels (and sperm counts) are cratering. Men in LatAm, Africa, South Asia and China doing just fine.
- Status of men?
- Increasing inequality generally?
- Change in social comparison group when using modern media?
Its not urbanisation or sedentarism or even pollution, because China et al have all of those.
I have too much testosterone I need to take estrogen sign me up :)
