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More of a meta-comment, but I'm disappointed there were no images in this article that visualized these changes.
by ambivalents 7y ago
More of a meta-comment, but I'm disappointed there were no images in this article that visualized these changes.
- lucb1e 7y agoI'm particularly interested in those giants, even if it's just two skeletons to compare. And surely someone made a rendition at some point!
- arkis22 7y agoAccording to http://guam.org.gu/gary.heathcote.muscle/Legendary.Chamorro.Strength.2012.Heathcote.htm http://guam.org.gu/gary.heathcote.muscle/Legendary.Chamorro.... The Taotao Tagga mentioned in the article is estimated at being 5 feet 9.5 inches while records of European soldiers from Hungary, France, Bohemia, and Saxony who were born between 1735 and 1739 were around 5 feet 5.5 inches. Noticeably taller, but maybe not gigantic. On the other hand I have a newfound understanding of just how gigantic George Washington (6 feet 2 inches, born in 1732) would have seemed to the vast majority of people.