作者: Priscille Touraille
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9014-7_24
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摘要: The idea that sexual selection can oppose natural in favouring costly traits is a Darwinian has been much explored by evolutionary biology within the last 50 years. Sexual dichromatism birds and dimorphism of body size mammals represent well known examples this theoretical issue. In few theorisations on stature (SSD) human species, absence questioning costs unsettling. Considering reproductive advantage big for mammalian females general obstetrical small particular, article explores critically ancient recent hypotheses advanced explaining SSD lineage. reason proposed to impenetrable lack coherence pinpointed here an epistemic obstacle at heart scientific models looking humans: gendered cultural norms practices are not seen as potential selective forces could thus favour morphological our species.