It also has to do with bodyfat percentage. No matter how rough your life circumstances, if you're not getting enough to eat you tend to reach menarche later. My grandmother (amazing family, but very poor, never more than adequate food to go around, kids weren't stunted, but were skinny!) didn't get there until nearly 18.
From an evolutionary standpoint, this makes perfect sense-- you don't make babies if you can't round up enough calories to support one.
But IMO a lot of evolutionary "science" is just spinning a compelling story to explain away some pathological aspect of modern life. Why go straight for "this is adaptive somehow" when it could as easily be explained by environmental toxins or other physical damage? Damage isn't adaptive. Damage is damage.
The idea that some of these things could stem from issues on the non-material planes is intriguing. How would you find out?
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Date: 2022-08-08 11:12 pm (UTC)From an evolutionary standpoint, this makes perfect sense-- you don't make babies if you can't round up enough calories to support one.
But IMO a lot of evolutionary "science" is just spinning a compelling story to explain away some pathological aspect of modern life. Why go straight for "this is adaptive somehow" when it could as easily be explained by environmental toxins or other physical damage? Damage isn't adaptive. Damage is damage.
The idea that some of these things could stem from issues on the non-material planes is intriguing. How would you find out?