Comments on: Humans Are Evolving

By: Demographic transition reconsidered « Entitled to an Opinion

Demographic transition reconsidered « Entitled to an Opinion — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:48:43 +0000

[...] of the Rabbit Strategy and Kids, Opera, and Local Status. A recent OB post somewhat relevant, Humans Are Evolving. A lot of people may not bother clicking through to read the pdf, so tomorrow I think I’ll [...]

By: TGGP

TGGP — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:21:21 +0000

That humans have continued to evolve is that main point of Greg Cochran & Henry Harpending's "The 10,000 Year Explosion". I highly recommend it. I hypothesized future sexual dimorphism here.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:56:11 +0000

Our culture respects taller thinner women who wait longer before having kids, but in fact we are evolving short heavy women who have kids earlier. Shades of Idiocracy – in many ways we are evolving to become less of what we now respect.

Isn’t this what one might expect – do we not value rarity in most cases. The edges of the curve are always more attractive than the middle – hence the preference for blondes and blue eyes (since these traits are relatively scarce, they represent a premium). So the fact that we respect/value women who delay childbirth and are thinner, may actually be a reflection that they are scarce and becoming scarcer?

By: Linkage is Good for You: Common Cold Edition « In Mala Fide

Linkage is Good for You: Common Cold Edition « In Mala Fide — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:05:12 +0000

[...] Robin Hanson reports that women are evolving to be fatter and shorter. [...]

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:45:11 +0000

That’s1948 – “spanning three generations in some families.”

By: Jake

Jake — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:43:43 +0000

These guys are making predictions for a time frame which is more than 3 times longer than the entire duration of their study…? Friends don’t let friends extrapolate wildly!

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Tweets that mention Overcoming Bias : Humans Are Evolving -- Topsy.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:41:03 +0000

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By: FeministX.blogspot.com

FeministX.blogspot.com — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:18:17 +0000

People could also be getting shorter because IQ correlates with height and a relatively higher reproductive rate on the left side of the bell curve correlates with a decrease in height.

By: M

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:52:57 +0000

Did the researchers take into account the fathers’ side of the
equation? On average, taller men have more children than their shorter counterparts. This pattern among men may well be more
robust than the reverse pattern among women. If so, then future
generations may actually become genetically taller. However, insofar
as inheritance of height is somewhat sex-specific, due to the fact that
the Y chromosome contains height-influencing genes, future
generations may become more sex-dimorphic with respect to height.

By: Phoenixism

Phoenixism — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:24:53 +0000

Uh yeah, hello.

Women raised on indigenous diets and removed from group television-induced idiocy tended to be more fertile and healthy.

Doesn’t that apply to everyone??

Any guy who thinks the runway model 3% body fat look is hot deserves to spill his seed into a barren desert.