Morphometric traits predict educational attainment independently of socioeconomic background.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Aim of this study is to describe the relationship between anthropometric traits and educational attainment among Estonian schoolchildren born between 1937 and 1962. We asked whether height, cranial volume and face width (a testosterone-dependent trait), measured in childhood predict later educational attainment independently of each other, family socioeconomic position (SEP) and sex. Associations between morphometric traits and education and their interactions with biosocial variables are of scholarly importance because higher education is nearly universally associated with low fertility in women, and often with high fertility in men. Hence, morphometric traits associated with educational attainment are targeted by natural selection and describing the exact nature of the

SUBMITTER: Valge M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6921596 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature