Human height provide economic historians with a wonderful tool to measure living standards in the past. A society's average height, it turns out, is to a large extent determined by the environment it inhabits during the early stages of life; the more proteins (e.g. milk and meat) we eat at a young age , the taller we tend to grow. This was especially true in the past, when people were poorer and nutrition varied more in different parts of the world.
The remarkable Maori experience
The remarkable Maori experience
The remarkable Maori experience
Human height provide economic historians with a wonderful tool to measure living standards in the past. A society's average height, it turns out, is to a large extent determined by the environment it inhabits during the early stages of life; the more proteins (e.g. milk and meat) we eat at a young age , the taller we tend to grow. This was especially true in the past, when people were poorer and nutrition varied more in different parts of the world.