Early humans 'more promiscuous and competitive' than modern-day man

Daily Mail ^ | October 3rd 2010 | David Derbyshire

[Slings and Arrows]

Okay, I’m in big trouble. My ring finger is longer on my right hand, but the shorter on my left.

It means that you haven't been standing up straight, and your hormones have sloshed to one side.

[Slings and Arrows]

GIGO = Garbage In, Garbage Out.

[bert]

Today we have football to soak up the excess testosterone

[TheOldLady]

Well, that explains a lot. Thanks.

[9YearLurker]

This article is the first I’ve seen the finger length being a male phenomenon. I’m quite sure the studies have shown it to hold with men and women. Higher testosterone women tend to be stronger in math, whereas it is the opposite in men: physicists and mathematicians tend to be relatively low in the hormone.

[a fool in paradise]

If the findings are confirmed, it means they were more aggressive and promiscuous than modern men - and that tens of thousands of years of evolution have had a civilising influence on the human race.

There are those still walking today who's life goal is to "smash monogamy".

[Docbarleypop]

that would explain my lack of math skills!! i dont have long fingers but my ring finger is over half an inch longer than my index finger...

[Docbarleypop]

We are serial monogomists, sorry to say, man, not even biblical man was intended to be true monogomists, hence the rules such as “if your brother dies you must make his wife yours” it protects your brother’s off-spring from infanticied above all else. the same as marriage laws, has very little to do with protecting the adults in the arrangement, it has to do with the welfare of the child and protecting the ascendancy of the male’s off-spring.

[9YearLurker]

Oh, no! That’s supposed to be the ratio that correlates with math ability. (And that’s a pretty extreme difference!)

[colorado tanker]

Hell, people from the 1970’s were more promiscuous and competitive than modern man.

[1010RD]

Garbage
In
Garbage
Out

[bigheadfred]

This study obviously didn’t include the Italian Primal Minister.

[Ditto]

Now guys, y'all check the length of your index finger versus your ring finger.

Dang. I'm guilty -- by about 1/2 inch. I guess I now have an excuse to go out and act like a jerk.

[SunkenCiv]

Italy should change the name of the job, really. Not just because of Berlusconi, either.

[SunkenCiv]

A nurse I used to work with said that she learned the finger/hand method of figuring out the size of catheter to use, that it works every time. :’)

[wildbill]

Well, maybe not every time.

You see, being a medium size guy, I have rather small hands and fingers, however, ...(here he shrugs modestly and draws a curtain over further discussion lest he be accused of bragging)

[gleeaikin]

Hey, what about women? My ring finger is longer than my index finger. Does that explain why I am a more aggressive, political activist, sex loving senior citizeness?

[hellbender]

Fred's feet look pretty large in some pictures, but he only has 3 toes per foot. You have to wonder if he is missing other body parts.