Men are the weaker sex-are some races weaker also? Lew Rockwell reads The Telegraph so I don't have to! Here is an interesting piece on a study that indicates why males don't live as long:

It used be thought that men died sooner than women because of fast living, violence and reckless behavior. Today, however, scientists say this is not the whole story. Studies lead them to conclude that men are weaker. They are debilitated by the male sex hormone testosterone and, to make matters worse, men, who tend to be larger than women, are encumbered by their size. In humans and other mammals, the mortality rate in males is higher than in females from puberty onwards. In the journal Science, Sarah Moore and Dr Ken Wilson, of Stirling University, report that one reason is that men are more susceptible to infections - from bacteria and viruses to fleas, worms and mites.

Interesting. What races have higher testosterone levels? What races are bigger? Here's another interesting article. Some quotes:

Compared to Caucasian males, men of African descent are more likely to carry a genetic mutation that helps them efficiently process the male hormone testosterone, Bunker said. That results in the growth of strong bones but, in combination with a virus called human herpesvirus 8, also seems to heighten the men's risk of prostate cancer. That's not to say that the men's diet and lifestyle don't contribute to their high prostate cancer rates, said Robert Ferrell, a Pitt professor of human genetics. "But so far," he added, "we haven't been able to identify any obvious environmental explanation." East Indians, the other major population group on Tobago, don't share the same high risk of prostate cancer.

Our friend Joseph L. Graves, the evolutionary biologist, shows up again as racial idiotarianism starts to sprout like weeds:

Genetically speaking, nothing differentiates one race from another. All humans share the same set of genes. There is no African gene, no Caucasian gene, no Asian gene. .... Even the most obvious distinguishing factor -- skin color -- can vary enormously within a race, said Joseph L. Graves Jr., an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University West in Phoenix. And the dark skin of a sub-Saharan African is not unlike the dark skin of a Caucasoid in India, added Graves, author of a 2001 book, "The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millennium." That's why most scientists say race is a social construct, not a biological one. In other words, social rules determine what races are and what they mean. .... But Graves said biomedical researchers need to take greater care in analyzing this data. In his book, he questions whether the prostate cancer polymorphism is truly the indicator that some researchers have suggested. That particular polymorphism can vary in length -- men with long versions are thought to be at increased risk for the cancer. The definition of long and short is arbitrary. Depending on what cutoff is used, he said, the frequency of the long form isn't necessarily much greater in black Americans than it is in whites. On the other hand, Graves is persuaded that differences in the frequency of another mutation -- the CCR5 gene -- might help explain why there are more people of European as compared to African descent who are resistant to the AIDS virus. The CCR5 mutation increases the resistance to infection by the human immunodeficiency virus and is much more common in people of European descent.

Graves can wave his hands all he wants, in his heart of hearts, he knows we're right. Read the article and make up your own mind, there's a lot of ink spread to argue that race doesn't matter, but the facts presented are not in agreement with that rhetorical position.