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China week continues at GGG. ;') Multiregionalism continues...
Maybe Barry Bonds can send over his drug contact.
"Do you have any idea how much that hurts?"
"I'm a walking candy apple!"
Oriental folklore is big head means smarter. Whereas a big body and small head (like Bluto of Popeye) is sign of stupidity. Same for outsized feet. Sign of stupidity
Popeye- small body large head
Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP) at the Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology, a branch of the Chinese Academy of Science at Jilin University, have found that in the last 10,000 years, the physical characteristics of Chinese people have undergone many changes.
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.
The reason people's skulls grew smaller during the Holocene epoch are not known and this will be the subject of further study. However, Dr. Lu believes the changes are most likely related to climate, flow of population, production systems and lifestyle.
By People's Daily Online
These guys sympathize.
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?
I always thought the Chinese were pinheads.
Obviously, Dr. Wu has nothing better to do...
