Pearl lecture: Biological normalcy: A new framework for biocultural analysis of human population variation

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Biological normalcy is a new analytical framework for understanding the bi-directional relationships between the biology of populations and cultural norms. Populations are characterized by statistical distributions-that is, measures of central tendency and variance-for biological traits, and these co-exist in societies with ideas about what constitutes "normal" human bodies, that is, normative views about what...

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