Interesting that WW2 seems to have actually increased the rate of height increase in Germany, vis a vis Australia where it obviously had the opposite effect (I assume)...
Different selection pressures, I suppose.
I know we got dicked over by rationing a bit (compared to the US, for example), but I very much doubt that would have had as much of an effect as the bombing and occupation of the whole of Germany, lol...
Would be interesting to have a breakdown of East Germany vs West, though, rather than just the total, for that period, because I suspect that might differ quite substantially...
Interesting that WW2 seems to have actually increased the rate of height increase in Germany, vis a vis Australia where it obviously had the opposite effect (I assume)...
Different selection pressures, I suppose.
I know we got dicked over by rationing a bit (compared to the US, for example), but I very much doubt that would have had as much of an effect as the bombing and occupation of the whole of Germany, lol...
Would be interesting to have a breakdown of East Germany vs West, though, rather than just the total, for that period, because I suspect that might differ quite substantially...
I read that the Dutch are now the tallest people in the world and it's no co-incidence they also have the highest intake of dairy products
Yeah, I mean I don't know about the dairy bit, but the Dutch have been the tallest in the world, on average, for some 200 years or so, I believe...
Good nutrition is definitely a huge part of that, so you're right in that regard!
But I think the "West Germanic" ethnicity probably also trends towards height, at least in recent centuries...
Seems to peter out when you get towards Western/Southern France, and the UK, though!
The Zulu/Pygmy Dichotomy is a strange one given their proximity