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This paper argues for greater investment in this field of inquiry and advocates linking evolutionary-developmental and political-economic approaches to the study of human biology and examines the importance of inequality in structuring access to the means of cultural production and the creation of self-reinforcing norms.

The history of biological determinism is reviewed, examining its varieties from its creationist beginnings to present-day biological thinking in the age of genomics, and the relationship between biological determinists and racialist understandings of human genetic variation is elucidated.

It is shown that secondary sexual characters are eminently variable, and that males vary more than females from the standard of the species, a standard determined by the young, by allied forms, and sometimes by the character of the male himself when his peculiar functions are only periodical, or when they have been artificially prevented.

No consistent pattern of negative genetic correlation between early and late life history characters was found by Giesel et al. (1982a), and there is an apparent contradiction between the results found from different laboratories working on the same problem of fitness-component covariation within the same species, Drosophila melanogaster.