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I suppose my main issue is that I just don't think the passage of time since the mid 19th century is long enough to give a natural selection answer for humans.
by tenant 7y ago
I suppose my main issue is that I just don't think the passage of time since the mid 19th century is long enough to give a natural selection answer for humans. Perhaps it might be more believable if Holland had suffered great loss of male life in WW1/WW2 and smaller men were disproportionately affected leaving tall men to breed widely. But Holland wasn't in WW1 and its loss of life in WW2 was relatively light.
- pinkfoot 7y agoTraits can be bred into dogs within four generations. (Yes, I am aware…)
- econcon 7y agoIt's been 150 years, roughly 3 generations can fit in that. Also, you are improving average height of population here, so if you simply remove a lot of people with below average height, average benefits a lot.
- tenant 7y agoMore like 5 generations but there was no one in charge of this breeding programme. It seems that a lot of Dutch men decided to voluntarily forego sex but to raise the children of women who were breeding with the tall men. And this phenomenon to have been peculiar to Holland. Just doesn't seem believable.