Any idea how that functions in Scandinavia , with less hair, but big sturdy women (big breasts, strong ect) and men too?
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Apepollo11@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I read this and immediately thought “well, that’s completely wrong”.
I’m British, so to me “Asian” usually means from the Indian Subcontinent. Some of those guys can be very beardy!
Anyway, the answer to your question is a phenomenon called Neoteny.
Basically, it’s the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood. It occurs almost exclusively through sexual selection.
In East Asia populations, there is a mutation in the EDAR gene which is associated with the specific differences you’ve mentioned (along with thicker head hair, less prominent chins, smaller boobs, etc).
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Scandinavians can often have thick beards, or am I wrong? Maybe their body hair looks like it’s less because it’s lighter?
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Most of us aren’t growing beards in our teens 😅 It’s more like the old japanese man who have let it grow for 50 years to get one.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Also british here. I don’t get why people don’t just say Southern Asian, West Asian, Central Asian, East Asian.
We do that for europe and Africa, so it isn’t offensive or anything, right?
It really neatly divides people into generally similar groups (admittedly Afghanis can be profoundly distinct from Indian-subcontinent-als, and i consider both to be south asians)
farmgineer@nord.pub 1 week ago
I grew up in the US and I always used “Asia” on its own to mean East Asia and think everyone else I knew did as well. Anywhere else just was called something else (India, the Middle East, South-East Asia, and so on). I don’t think it hit me until I moved to Japan in my 30s, but I definitely see it a lot still in USAmerican-heavy online groups.