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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.

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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?

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