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Obese women 'significantly more likely to have children with birth defects' .
Women are getting more beautiful. "Beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts."
Taller men... are more likely to father children. Tall men are less likely to be obese. Not a direct correlation though. Tall men also tend to earn more.
Just some results that may help shed more light on this. Without better data I don't want to make any definitive statements, though.
I call BS. <google> Wikipedia backs my play.
Granted, but that particular claim is not especially relevant to this conversation, nor does Wikipedia's article on Kanazawa refute Jokela's findings. My purpose for linking to that wasn't to highlight the "women are getting more more beautiful" headline but simply to draw a connection from the claim that beautiful women reproduce more to the conclusion that obese women would therefore reproduce less. I don't back this claim, because I haven't read the paper, but unverified data is better than no data.