On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, "Geoff D'Arcy" <geoff.darcy@gmail.com> wrote:
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
That article is about people who are malnourished being shorter. It's the same now, people who had good food and a good social environment when they were young are on average taller than those who didn't. Genetically there's been no great change, it's just a matter of how many people are lucky enough to have good food and a good environment. There's a lot of fairly dubious stuff about how nice things supposedly were in hunter-gatherer societies. For starters I can't imagine a society where a woman left her tribe to live with her husband's tribe being any good in terms of the treatment of women. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/