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Chinese people's heads becoming smaller
People's Daily Online ^ | August 17, 2006 | unattributed

Posted on 08/17/2006 10:24:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

Dr. Wu Xue Jie from the IVPP said experts in the research team tested, analyzed and compared 718 skulls belonging to Chinese adult males who lived during the New Stone Age, the Bronze Age and modern times. They discovered that Chinese people's craniums and viscerocraniums are getting smaller; their noses and eye sockets are becoming narrower; and their skulls are becoming more rounded.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.people.com.cn ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: china; godsgravesglyphs; multiregionalism
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

I'm all for a little head.


21 posted on 08/17/2006 11:09:45 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

Your bad.........LOL


22 posted on 08/17/2006 11:15:24 AM PDT by marmar (Although, I may look different then you....my blood still runs....RED, WHITE, @ BLUE.)
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To: SunkenCiv

718skulls/10,000years = 7/century

Meanwhile total population of "China" over that same 10,000 = ???

Q-1 of the older skulls, what are the chances that most represent the better fed, healthier classes?

Q-2 even if all 718 skulls were of present day "Chinese", that is still only about half of the number of samples that US pollsters need to use to get a decent idea of any thing in our much smaller population, so just how "representative" is this of "Chinese" head size?

Q-3 are the older skulls even really "Chinese"?

Q-4 was regional variation accounted & compensated for?

Q-5 are there political/social ideologies driving the "findings"?

Q-6 Does this presage a Chinese demand for a 2 for 1 preference on Chinese emigrants, based on smaller size per unit?


23 posted on 08/17/2006 11:17:40 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: martin_fierro
Insert obligatory Alice in Wonderland reference here.

SD

24 posted on 08/17/2006 11:20:48 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: SunkenCiv

I always thought the Chinese were pinheads.


25 posted on 08/17/2006 11:23:13 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (USAF Air Rescue "That others may live.")
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

That's the Laugh of the Day!

What a pretty baby! I sure hope you're not the evil person who did this...Mr.X has one with our youngest and some Heineken empties. Guys see things so strangely sometimes.


26 posted on 08/17/2006 11:55:50 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: ishabibble

Not my doing. (Apparently I'm not as evil as your husband. Although, much to wife's chagrin, I always let my boys teethe on the top of whatever cold beer bottle I was holding at the time.)


27 posted on 08/17/2006 12:26:09 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: SunkenCiv
When our heads grew, our brains grew and we got smarter.


28 posted on 08/17/2006 1:23:57 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated)
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To: Lady Jag

good humor bump.


29 posted on 08/17/2006 1:37:16 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
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To: SoothingDave

Or Darby Slick...


30 posted on 08/17/2006 3:48:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Obviously, Dr. Wu has nothing better to do...


31 posted on 08/17/2006 3:50:50 PM PDT by diamond6 (Everyone who is for abortion have been born. Ronald Reagan)
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To: diamond6

Sounds like it would have been better had Wu Xue Jie panned the idea. [rimshot!]


32 posted on 08/17/2006 4:11:39 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: diamond6

Steely Dan?


33 posted on 08/17/2006 10:03:26 PM PDT by skepsel
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