>>13328254>>13326439The reason people THINK that southernness = shortness,
is because THE EUROPEAN NEOLITHIC is associated with southern Europeans.
And early agricultural adaptation in Europe made people shorter.
This is the reason that Southern Europeans are genetically shorter than Northerns.
This pairing is the most well-studied one, supported by centuries of high-meat high-calcium diets, and they STILL remain shorter. It's purely genetics in this case.
Southern Chinese MAY be genetically shorter than North, but they are also blood type O,
>>13325912 which likely makes them even shorter than they should be (O is meat-adapted, with higher stomach acids, and Chinese still don't have access to lots of meat)
For instance, in India the Southerners are taller than the Northerners on average. Indus farmers were also much taller than European farmers (almost the same height as the Steppe peoples). Polynesians are much taller than Southern Chinese.
