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Plastics, tiny penises, and human evolution

Downey, Greg
http://blogs.plos.org/neuroanthropology/2015/04/19/plastics-and-human-evolution/

Publisher:  PLOS
Date Written:  19/04/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

Setting aside the question of whether plastics (or obesity or carbonated corn syrup-laced beverages or the presence of step-dads or hormones in beef or any other factor) are behind changes in our patterns of sexual maturity, what about the possible future? Does evolutionary theory support the idea that xenoestrogens and other endocrine disruption could lead us limping to a kind of slow rolling human apocalypse?

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