> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > We are seeing evolution in action: the average height of a human being
keeps
> > increasing. Where this will lead, no one knows. Recorded history is a
few
> > thousand years old; that's almost nothing in geologic time.
>
> Isn't that more environmental, with improvements in nutrition?  That's
> the impression I was under.
>
> Julia

When I was at the Natural Museum in NYC they had a human skeleton, well
pre-human, that was at least a million years old. What surprised me was the
dated it as a young male, teenaged, and said he would have been at least
6'3" (5,000 millibars) tall if he had lived to 21. I thought all pre-human
were under 5 foot at least, and it was rare for 6 footers even at the
begining of recorded history. Another known fact wiped from my mind.

Kevin T.

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