This question is not mean to be racially offensive, but something I am very curious about.
In China and India, people were generally very thin, short and disease prone in the past due to limited food supply and nutrition to feed a third of humanity. With economic growth, people in both countries are becoming fatter and taller -- but not as muscular as Africans.
On the other hand, Africans in much of the African continent are still starving or getting limited nutrition. Yet, they are quite big and muscular.
Muscularity may be genetic, but height and weight are surely reduced if one is starving all the time (especially during the growth and childhood phases) and ones parents and ancesters have always been starving?
Why did this not happen in Africa as it did in China and India?
2007-01-09
05:31:39
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Apeman
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