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The reduced sea area, and thus the increased distance to the coast, together with the declined sea surface temperature, led to intensified aridity on the land. The enhanced eolian processes related to the intensification of the winter monsoon caused an expansion of the loess deposition area reaching the southeastern part of China to the south of the Yangtze River and off the modern sea coast. Vegetation zones greatly shifted to the southeast. In north China, deserts and steppes were much more extensive than they are now and the modern areas of warm-temperate, broad-leaved forests were occupied by steppes or woodland.
In south China, the deciduous, broadleaved forests were developed in areas now covered by evergreen forests, and the monsoon rain forest completely disappeared.
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But is it culture, genetics or the environment that drives such a choice—and is there an optimal age difference? New research shows that, at least for the Sami people of preindustrial Finland, men should marry a woman almost 15 years their junior to maximize their chances of having the most offspring that survive.
Yet, only 10 percent of these marriages were between men and women with that optimal age difference. The span ranged from men marrying women as much as 20 years older to women marrying men as much as 25 years older; the average age difference between husband and wife was three years. Marriage customs or the availability of reindeer to support a new family the Sami people are reindeer herders might be the reason that more Sami marriages did not display the optimum age difference, Helle says.
Ultimately, it is the age at which the woman begins bearing children that is the biggest factor in survival, the paper in Biology Letters suggests:
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