How much impact do gains in height have on shoulder breadths within Taiwanese families?

ConclusionsTaken as a whole, results here support the view that secular changes in stature are not accompanied by similar changes in body breadths, perhaps so that responses to developmental environmental improvements do not alter thermoregulatory equilibria that reflect long‐term evolutionary processes. These results indirectly constrain plausible hypotheses about how ancestors of Austronesian speakers altered their body size and shape as they voyaged to Fiji, Western Polynesia, and beyond.
Source: American Journal of Human Biology - Category: Biology Authors: Tags: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research