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I wonder if this could be related to the size of pacific islanders. I remember reading somewhere that is was somewhat of a paradox how people living on small is
by kneel 9y ago
I wonder if this could be related to the size of pacific islanders. I remember reading somewhere that is was somewhat of a paradox how people living on small islands for so long became so large.
People from the pacific have been long been adept fisherman using techniques such as deep diving spearfishing.
Pacific islanders are also enormous. They're overrepresented in the NFL for a good reason. Anyone who has ever met a family of Samoans knows that these people have very different genes.
- Baeocystin 9y agoSuch changes based on the unique environmental pressures of species living on islands comes under the heading of Foster's Rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster%27s_rule Interestingly, species will both grow or shrink, depending on their initial niche before becoming an island population, as well as local resource availability.
- danieltillett 9y agoHave a look at what the ancestors of the current Pacific Islanders were doing for a few thousand years. They lived in an environment where growing food is easy and starvation almost unknown, contagious disease minimal, yet the population static. Which of the four horsemen was responsible?
- craftyguy 9y agoI've heard a different explanation (from Jared Diamond): it's because of the introduction and proliferation of high calorie, cheap foods. You see this in many 3rd world countries (e.g. central/south America, many poor towns in the US, etc) that have easy access to type of food.