[lbo-talk] Canadians: Standing Taller Than Americans

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 4 07:48:50 PDT 2005


wow, Yoshie! this is very interesting!

you write:>Why did human bodies and lives both grow shorter? With agriculture came classes and contagious diseases, the pox on humanity that has yet to be eradicated.<

it's also possible that population pressures on a hunter/gatherer society could cause nutrition problems (and shorter heights) which then were (partially and temporarily) solved by the introduction of agriculture. Even more likely, causation ran both ways. JD



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