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Date: Fri Jul 13 13:57:12 2001
Posted By: Thomas M. Greiner, Assistant Professor of Anatomy / Physical Anthropology
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 994696844.Zo
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Message:
Would a gorilla be stronger than a strong man of the same weight?
Comparison questions like this are fun to think about, but they are
impossible to answer in any absolute sense. There are too many variables
to consider. Here are a few:
A typical adult male gorilla weighs about 350 lbs (175 kgs). Although some
people have certainly obtained this weight, they were never the trained
athletes you would want to have compete against the gorilla. One the other
hand, if you used a underweight gorilla that is down to the weight of
human athletes, you would either have a juvenile gorilla or one that was
quite sickly. Any way you want to put this contest together based upon
body weight, either the human or the gorilla would not be fair example of
their species.
Another problem is what do you mean by strong? Most human strength
activities, such as weight lifting, involve a degree of skill as well as
strength (that is why they are still considered to be athletic contests).
It wouldn’t surprise me if a human could bench press more weight than a
gorilla (if you could even get a gorilla to try it), but that very same
gorilla would probably be able to tear the arms off that very same human.
A general principle in biology is that the basic unit of muscle activity
(the sarcomere) is pretty much the same in all animals. That means that
the muscle of any animal is just as powerful as the muscle of any other
animal. What differs between animals is how the sarcomeres are arranged,
and how many of them are dedicated to a particular action. This is a
difference of biomechanics. By way of comparison, you could put a 500
horsepower engine in a race car and in a tractor. The engine in both
vehicles is equally powerful. However, the tractor uses that power to pull
heavy objects but not to go fast, while the race car uses that power to go
fast but it cannot pull much weight. So, the two vehicles are just as
powerful, even though there is no way to compare their performance. Your
human and gorilla comparison would produce a similar result. The two
creatures may be equally powerful, but they are completely unequal in
their abilities.
(Re: would a gorilla be stronger than a world strongest man of the same weight)
Posted By: Thomas M. Greiner, Assistant Professor of Anatomy / Physical Anthropology
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 994696844.Zo
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message:
Would a gorilla be stronger than a strong man of the same weight?
Comparison questions like this are fun to think about, but they are
impossible to answer in any absolute sense. There are too many variables
to consider. Here are a few:
A typical adult male gorilla weighs about 350 lbs (175 kgs). Although some
people have certainly obtained this weight, they were never the trained
athletes you would want to have compete against the gorilla. One the other
hand, if you used a underweight gorilla that is down to the weight of
human athletes, you would either have a juvenile gorilla or one that was
quite sickly. Any way you want to put this contest together based upon
body weight, either the human or the gorilla would not be fair example of
their species.
Another problem is what do you mean by strong? Most human strength
activities, such as weight lifting, involve a degree of skill as well as
strength (that is why they are still considered to be athletic contests).
It wouldn’t surprise me if a human could bench press more weight than a
gorilla (if you could even get a gorilla to try it), but that very same
gorilla would probably be able to tear the arms off that very same human.
A general principle in biology is that the basic unit of muscle activity
(the sarcomere) is pretty much the same in all animals. That means that
the muscle of any animal is just as powerful as the muscle of any other
animal. What differs between animals is how the sarcomeres are arranged,
and how many of them are dedicated to a particular action. This is a
difference of biomechanics. By way of comparison, you could put a 500
horsepower engine in a race car and in a tractor. The engine in both
vehicles is equally powerful. However, the tractor uses that power to pull
heavy objects but not to go fast, while the race car uses that power to go
fast but it cannot pull much weight. So, the two vehicles are just as
powerful, even though there is no way to compare their performance. Your
human and gorilla comparison would produce a similar result. The two
creatures may be equally powerful, but they are completely unequal in
their abilities.
(Re: would a gorilla be stronger than a world strongest man of the same weight)
