Tentative Synthesis
January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Category: Estrogen, Neoteny, Ontogeny, Sexual Selection, Social Structure, Society
We’ve established in earlier entries the following evolutionary paradigm: Mother’s testosterone levels > progeny maturation rate > social structure proclivity > evolutionary trajectory.
Now, let’s consider a complementary addition.
Continuing yesterday’s discussion, let’s assume Scandinavian female Te, male tE where…..
T = high testosterone
t = low testosterone
E = high estrogen
e = low estrogen
If it is the case that in Scandinavia both sexes evolved the biological, neurological and societal features of neoteny over 5,000 years, then it would seem anomalous according to a foundation hypothesis of this blog and the Theory of Waves. I am estimating that over the course of human evolution we tended toward matrifocal social structure (females TE, males te) or patrifocal social structure (females te, males TE).
We’ve discussed how Asian patrifocal cultures manifest neoteny in both sexes by encouraging female te and male TE by shifting all hormonal thresholds downward, allowing cooperation within a patrifocal context. You’d also get a highly aesthetic society with male high E embedding refined discrimination, a matrifocal female attribute, with the male.
It seems possible that low female estrogen might be a powerful determinant of neoteny in females. This might be the case biologically, though I know …