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People who fled a famine so severe that it lead over 100% of that country's population to emigrate are surely a representative sample of a normal physique from
by lmm 2y ago
People who fled a famine so severe that it lead over 100% of that country's population to emigrate are surely a representative sample of a normal physique from that era, especially immediately after a week-long ocean crossing.
- brodouevencode 2y agoName a span of time in which there wasn't war, starvation, or economic reasons that would have produced any emaciated set of people.
- lmm 2y agoOf course most eras have famine victims, once-in-a-century famines happen more or less every century after all. But treating those famine victims as representatives of a normal physique for that era would be foolish, in any era.