Best Article on Human Height Over the Years

I assume you know of the Mummies of Urumchi? Six and half foot tall red heads found perfectly preserved in Western China from 800-2000BC. Go figure, huh?

 

No surprise, the Vikings basically went everywhere

 

Yeah those damn gingers from Europe got around. Even made it to Mexico (Canelo).

 

Canelo is basically a brother to the Irish, a true Celtic warrior.

 

People from 16,000 BC are taller than they are today? Must have been a lot of meat back then. I'm not sure if I buy it.

 

Here is the white paper:
http://www.hormones.gr/pdf/Stature_europeans.pdf

It seems like the climate levels at the time were such that the hunter gatherer tribes had an abundance of large animals to hunt. When warmer climate forced the animals north, many of those former hunters adapted to the new climate via agriculture, and started moving towards a starch based diet.

 

Excellent article

 

Nice one reznick.

 

It seems foraging is better for the diet than farming, wheat has been the death of us.

 

I suggest you guys have a read of the book Sapiens, a very interesting read on humankind.