Comments on: Long Legs http://www.neoteny.org/2009/05/22/long-legs/ The American Left, Societal Transformation, and Biological Evolution Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:35:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: a http://www.neoteny.org/2009/05/22/long-legs/comment-page-1/#comment-2395 a Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:58:01 +0000 http://www.neoteny.org/?p=427#comment-2395 Further (anecdotal) evidence of the increased neoteny of Scandinavians might be that they seem to have proportionally greater trunks than average, and, staying true to the encephalization quotient, bigger heads to go with them. I know the latter is a commonly observed trait in autistics, but I have not seen it considered in relation to trunk size. Maybe you're onto something. I got kinda obsessed with this stuff a while back-- I was the only person in my family with "eunuchoid" skeletal structure, but in my case, this turned out to be a case of delayed puberty. Further (anecdotal) evidence of the increased neoteny of Scandinavians might be that they seem to have proportionally greater trunks than average, and, staying true to the encephalization quotient, bigger heads to go with them. I know the latter is a commonly observed trait in autistics, but I have not seen it considered in relation to trunk size. Maybe you’re onto something.

I got kinda obsessed with this stuff a while back– I was the only person in my family with “eunuchoid” skeletal structure, but in my case, this turned out to be a case of delayed puberty.

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