Why are scandinavian people generally taller than others ? Anything to do with the effects of heat on cells ?

Question

If you have an idea about the effects of heat on cells please let me know !

Answer 1

As a group, scandinavians are not a whole lot taller than the rest of the world's population. If it had to do with heat and its effects on cell growth, there would be more very short people in southern Africa. Scandinavia is not exactly the tropics.

Answer 2

For heat to matter, it would have to be very hot. In general, proteins don't denature at ambient temps; and, if a person gets too cold or too hot, they'll usually remedy the situation by putting on more clothes or taking some off. Point being that cells don't start breaking apart from environmental temperatures.

Of course, nutrition does come into play - but that's not related to heat. I'm not sure if Scandinavians eat better than others. But healthy food (and enough of it) would be important during development (fetus to adult) and in order to replace proteins/DNA that had been denatured. . .but again, people don't experience such extreme temps that things would break down.

Answer 3

nutricion