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The average "African" is not "predisposed to be taller" that is just a stereotype. Mainland Chinese people tend to be taller actually than the average West Afri

The average "African" is not "predisposed to be taller" that is just a stereotype. Mainland Chinese people tend to be taller actually than the average West African. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_human_height_worldwide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_human_height_w... African Americans on average are taller, but that is probably due to environmental differences and selection bias (slavery etc). I would suspect mainland Chinese people are much taller than they used to be due to improvements to nutrition.

shard972 9y ago
What are you talking about? Why is it then we can see that african americans are taller than asian americans? I would be pretty shocked if it turned out asian americans were more malnutrinted than african americans. > African Americans on average are taller, but that is probably due to environmental differences and selection bias (slavery etc). The papers I have seen don't really bear this out at all. Here is what the NHS says about it https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/height https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/height Right on the first line > Scientists estimate that about 80 percent of an individual’s height is determined by the DNA sequence variants they have inherited, That seems to back up what I'm saying.
- spicymaki 9y ago
  I said African Americans are taller and that might be due to selection pressure (DNA) as well as environment (better diet, etc). My comment was not about Asian Americans at all. I was talking about Mainland Chinese in China, comparing Mainland Chinese to Africans in Africa given height data. The comment I was responding to was that Africans are predisposed to being tall genetically, and my response to that is we do not have evidence of that given the data we have about these populations.

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The average "African" is not "predisposed to be taller" that is just a stereotype. Mainland Chinese people tend to be taller actually than the average West Afri

by spicymaki 9y ago

shard972 9y ago
What are you talking about? Why is it then we can see that african americans are taller than asian americans? I would be pretty shocked if it turned out asian americans were more malnutrinted than african americans. > African Americans on average are taller, but that is probably due to environmental differences and selection bias (slavery etc). The papers I have seen don't really bear this out at all. Here is what the NHS says about it https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/height https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/traits/height Right on the first line > Scientists estimate that about 80 percent of an individual’s height is determined by the DNA sequence variants they have inherited, That seems to back up what I'm saying.
- spicymaki 9y ago
  I said African Americans are taller and that might be due to selection pressure (DNA) as well as environment (better diet, etc). My comment was not about Asian Americans at all. I was talking about Mainland Chinese in China, comparing Mainland Chinese to Africans in Africa given height data. The comment I was responding to was that Africans are predisposed to being tall genetically, and my response to that is we do not have evidence of that given the data we have about these populations.