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Originally Posted by hildea
Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out! I've read a couple of Spencer's Elfhome books, and liked them, but have never read this one.
Not neccessarily. If the number of boys born dropped sharply say five hundred or a thousand years ago (because of some disease or mutation which somehown spread to the whole population), that's enough time for the culture to change drastically, but not enough for evolution to make much difference.
For evolution to have this effect, there would also have to be something in society which caused weak men and strong women to have more children than others, but that might be there -- I haven't read the book yet  |
Good points that I didn't think of.