At 07:53 AM 4/23/01 +0200, Anders Sandberg wrote:
>Evolutionary pressures
>are too slow to act much over the ~4 generations ibstetrics has become
>good.
Funny how noone here has mentioned the significant drop in the importance
of a woman's performance of the kinds of activities which are supposedly
the main selectional forces against a larger pelvis, such as primitive
hunting or running away from predators. Anyone know what the
anthropological data is here?
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J. Goard
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We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients.
But we can't scoff at them personally, to their
faces, and this is what annoys me.
--Deep Thoughts, with Jack Handey--
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