Re: people's heights

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:36

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John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> writes:
>In article <slrnp6e869...@smaus.org>,  <ma...@mail.com> wrote:
>>Completely off topic, but found this when browsing today.
>>
>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_Indians
>>
>>The interesting bit is near the bottom, about those Plains indians
>>average heights, when existing on a diet of Buffalo.
>
>The link is broken but this one works:
>
>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/american-plains-indians-h/
>
>Well, sure, bison is good for you.  They were about 5'8".
>
>But I'm not sure how useful average height of a population is.  Around
>1800 the average height of men in North America was probably about
>5'6" but Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Tyler, and Buchanan
>were all 6' or taller, as were regional leaders like De Witt Clinton
>and Henry Clay.  I'm not sure that that means, but there sure were
>a lot of tall dudes.
>
>

195cm here.

http://www.businessinsider.com/tall-people-are-richer-and-successful-2015-9

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