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Interpreting sexual selection in this scenario: Dutch were really short because of malnutrition. Perhaps people were trying to make sure their children become
by babesh 7y ago
Interpreting sexual selection in this scenario:
Dutch were really short because of malnutrition.
Perhaps people were trying to make sure their children become taller despite being so short. So they tend to marry the tallest people. This works because of improving nutrition.
Perhaps this preference for height became ingrained culturally in the society. This cultural preference becomes ingrained since it can be reproduced by relative isolation (cultural and/or physical).
According to the article, tall men were favored whereas average sized women were favored. I wonder why tall women weren't favored versus average sized women? I think these preferences are in general populations but were exaggerated here?
- econcon 7y ago>Dutch were really short because of malnutrition. It's hard to be malnutritioned. Can you link why only Dutch were malnutritioned and not other Europeans? You don't really lose much height through lacking diet. My grandmother was born in poverty and there was famine and drought at her time which killed 3 of her family members, yet she was 6'2 tall.