title: Polynesian body size: an adaptation to environmental temperature?
abstract: A computer simulation of exposure at sea in the tropical Pacific supports the hypothesis that humans colonising this region have been subject to strong directional selection for a large muscular body. This is advanced as an explanation for the typical Polynesian phenotype, and suggestions are made linking this phenotype with the metabolic disorders of gout and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago Medical School, Dunedin, New Zealand.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Houghton