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"It wasn’t until well after the invention of cars and antibiotics that the average European man outgrew today’s average American teenaged girl." Am I missing something or is that a really bizarre statement?
"It wasn’t until well after the invention of cars and antibiotics that the average European man outgrew today’s average American teenaged girl." Am I missing something or is that a really bizarre statement?
It's saying it took until the 1930+s for European men to reach levels of height we'd consider normal for teenaged girls today.
"It wasn’t until well after the invention of cars and antibiotics that the average European man outgrew today’s average American teenaged girl." Am I missing something or is that a really bizarre statement?
Females are shorter than males. Adults are taller than teenagers. It's saying it took until the 1930+s for European men to reach levels of height we'd consider normal for teenaged girls today.
By way of introducing the concept, I asked "if someone is very tall, are their parents probably taller or shorter than they are?" "Shorter". So far so good.
"If someone is very short, are their parents taller or shorter?" "Shorter".
Apparently, to the current generation, no matter how short you are, your parents are shorter. Long live the CCP :/
Doors tell their own story, big cities have been redeveloped (and bombed) whereas rural areas or places that have not got much of a look in since the early days of the industrial revolution have not.
Given that there is no theory that fully holds water on why we grow tall (I personally blame the Green Revolution), you could probably blur correlation/causation in a 'door and mattress size' study to conclude that 'if we make the doors bigger then people grow to fill them'.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Females are shorter than males. Adults are taller than teenagers. It's saying it took until the 1930+s for European men to reach levels of height we'd consider normal for teenaged girls today.
Yeah, this reminds me of a somewhat chilling moment when a chinese teenager asked me what I was reading about (regression to the mean). By way of introducing the concept, I asked "if someone is very tall, are their parents probably taller or shorter than they are?" "Shorter". So far so good. "If someone is very short, are their parents taller or shorter?" "Shorter". Apparently, to the current generation, no matter ho…
We still haven't reached the average height we were 40000 years ago[1]. Agriculture allowed us to feed many more people, but it came at a terrible price on human health. And the fact that the article says we are taller now than we have ever been in history, which is patently not true, casts a serious level of doubt on the article. 1. http://australianmuseum.net.au/How-have-we-changed-since-our...
Could you elaborate please.
I thought the Maasai people of East Africa were the tallest. Their height is all the more impressive considering their rough lifestyles and nutrition.
We still haven't reached the average height we were 40000 years ago[1]. Agriculture allowed us to feed many more people, but it came at a terrible price on human health. And the fact that the article says we are taller now than we have ever been in history, which is patently not true, casts a serious level of doubt on the article. 1. http://australianmuseum.net.au/How-have-we-changed-since-our...
Interesting, thanks for sharing.
Another very interesting fact - brain gets smaller in volume and unlike height, this trend is still not reversed (not sure about weight, though).
We still haven't reached the average height we were 40000 years ago[1]. Agriculture allowed us to feed many more people, but it came at a terrible price on human health. And the fact that the article says we are taller now than we have ever been in history, which is patently not true, casts a serious level of doubt on the article. 1. http://australianmuseum.net.au/How-have-we-changed-since-our...
Yes we do, there are a number of countries where the average height is close to 183 cm (average in your article, though there are no citations given for that fact): The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Serbia, ... In the Dinaric Alps, it even reach 186 cm, so in fact we ARE taller today[1].
But another article[2] with actual sources point to an 176.2 cm average, much smaller than today.
> but it came at a terrible price on human health
[Citation needed]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height#Average_height_ar...
[2] http://archaeology.about.com/od/earlymansites/a/cro_magnon.h...