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Alexander Ren
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Something to add about the industrial revolution is that it brought with it some serious increases in polution because of industrial byproducts that were not disposed of properly, ex: lead and mercury and more recently (1900's) PCB's and Dioxins. Hence the reason why women should never eat meat from large predatory fish while pregnant because of problems mercury can cause to a developling fetus.
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/admehg3.html
Alex
"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."
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Don Calcote
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Gary Teuscher
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| Quote: | | I think everyone is aware that people in certain areas of the globe, in this case Europe are taller and larger in size in our time due to the industrial revolution which brought about many comforts and an abundance of food and far better nutrition. |
Actually, many think that the industrial revolution was a contributing factor to the reduction in height! And I mena the early industrial period, 1500's on or so. The poor working conditions and more urbanized population which helped spread disease contributed to this.
Another "revolution", the agrarian one also seemed to reduce average hieght, likley some disease/urbanization issues, as well as the diet being poorer in protein as most substinence was derived from grains.
If you look at current average height throughout the globe, you well see that with the more impoverished third world countries, and those that suffer more greatly from disease, average height is lower.
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/medimen.htm
The above is a link that provides some interesting info on hostoric average height.
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Bennison N
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For a different sort of comparison...
Many Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1911) Imperial Guardsmen are known to have been over 2 metres (6' 5") tall.
These were elite, highly trained fighters, not shock troops. There does not appear to be any loss of coordination at all, rather the contrary.
"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance" - Confucius
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William P
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about the tiny doorways of for example the house of captain cook, dont we have MEASUREMENTS?? i mean this isnt the bronze age, this was arguably the period that got us obsessed with writing down every detail.
dont we have records of hieght from the 18th century onwards of more than just the king and his buddies
as for french hieght, i remember hearing that napoleon chose only the tallest men to serve, and, thanks to the massive casualties of the era, the french average hieght SHRUNK for a short while.
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E. Storesund
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Wasn't the guy from 6th century Trossingen 180-something centimetres tall? Obviously, height has varied greatly over time.
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Gary Teuscher
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| Posted: Mon 03 Oct, 2011 11:27 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | about the tiny doorways of for example the house of captain cook, dont we have MEASUREMENTS?? |
This according to most human heigth studies was the period where height had again shrunk from waht it was centuries before.
Jsut a quick off the top of my head, average height was estimated in europe to be 5'7"-5'8" in the 11th century, then declining around the 14th as the black death and mini ice age kicked in, people reaching the shortest height around the 17th century or so. Shortest in recent history I mena - apparently the agricultural revolution in pre-history resulted in a stunting of growth.
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