URI Anthropology Professor Challenges Evolutionary Narratives of Big, Competitive Men and Broad, Birthing Women
June 10, 2020
June 10, 2020
KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 10 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news:
Men are taller than women because millennia ago big, strong men beat out their shorter rivals for access to mates. The female pelvis is broader than the male pelvis because women have evolved to give birth. So the thinking goes.
They're compelling evolutionary narratives that have lasted in textbooks, classrooms and pop culture as explanations for the skeletal differences b . . .
Men are taller than women because millennia ago big, strong men beat out their shorter rivals for access to mates. The female pelvis is broader than the male pelvis because women have evolved to give birth. So the thinking goes.
They're compelling evolutionary narratives that have lasted in textbooks, classrooms and pop culture as explanations for the skeletal differences b . . .