While there are many possible applications of psychology to human life history strategies, a
common hypothesis is the adoption of “fast” life history strategies in response to …

Researchers have claimed that the absence of a biological father accelerates the daughter's
menarche. This claim was assessed by employing a large and nationally representative …

Across time and space, men, both young and old, usually report to be sexually interested in
women in their late teens to late 20s. We investigated whether this self-reported preference …

Objectives Bioarcheological evidence suggests stature increased in males but decreased in
females after the Black Death (1348‐1350 CE). Because tradeoffs between growth and …

Background: The pre-pubertal socioeconomic environment may be an important
determinant of age at menarche, adult height, body proportions and adiposity: traits closely …

Abstract Analyzing the Indonesian Family Life Survey 2007, this paper estimates the value of
relative height (relative to the spouse's height) in the marriage market of a developing …

Purpose Although obesity and happiness are known to be negatively related in the
developed world, little attention has been paid to this relationship in the developing world …

Objectives We used age at menarche to understand improvement in the biological standard
of living in South Korea during the 20th century. Methods The main dataset, the Korean …

Employing the Indonesian Family Life Survey, this paper depicts the trend in age at
menarche in Indonesia for women born in 1944–1988. Mean age at menarche decreased …

Background Researchers typically use height to understand the growth environment, but
recent evidence suggests that height does not reflect it well; height can even be misleading …