Which countries in Africa have the tallest women and men?
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Franz Boas:
“He studied eight equestrian tribes of the Western Plains: the Assiniboine, Blackfeet, Crow, Sioux, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and Comanche. The average height of white men in the U.S. was about
5’6” (1,68 m) in the mid-1800s, and European men were slightly shorter. However, Boas found that the height of the average Cheyenne was a whopping
5’10” (1,78 m); the Arapaho about
5’9” (1,75 m); the Crow
5’8-1/2”; Sioux
5’8” (1,73 m) and the Blackfeet a fraction under the Sioux; the Kiowa were
5’7” (1,70 m) and the Assiniboine a fraction under the Kiowa. The Comanche were the shortest; they had the same average height as white men: 5’6” (1,68 m).
Recently discovered data has revealed a surprising fact: Native Americans, especially equestrian Plains tribes, were the tallest people in the world! North American Indians may not have lived rich lives monetarily in the 1800s, but they were far richer than most Europeans and white Americans in...
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Haven’t found data with Franz Boas on Africans.
Many variables go into what causes height. And it can fluctuate, as we see in modern populations. The South Sudanese are the tallest people (on average).
The thing is most Black Americans don’t have admixture from Native Americans. And if so, it’s usually extremely low.
The Consortium on Asthma among African-ancestry Populations in the Americas (CAAPA) aims to better understand population genetics of the African diaspora. Here, it uses deeply sequenced whole-genomes to describe the impact of admixture and potential disease burden of deleterious variants.
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