6 Jan
2013
6 Jan
'13
12:03 a.m.
On 05/01/13 13:40, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Russell Coker wrote:
That's hardly surprising. None of the problems that have been pointed out with Wikipedia are new. People haven't changed much in 10,000+ years.
Well, I hear they got taller...
I hear they got shorter... "Skeletons from Greece and Turkey show that the average height of hunger-gatherers toward the end of the ice ages was a generous 5' 9'' for men, 5' 5'' for women. With the adoption of agriculture, height crashed, and by 3000 B. C. had reached a low of only 5' 3'' for men, 5' for women. By classical times heights were very slowly on the rise again, but modern Greeks and Turks have still not regained the average height of their distant ancestors." http://goo.gl/dK6j