Chinese people's heads becoming smaller

People's Daily Online ^ | August 17, 2006 | unattributed

[1rudeboy]

I'm all for a little head.

[marmar]

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

[ApplegateRanch]

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?

[SoothingDave]

Insert obligatory Alice in Wonderland reference here.

SD

[CholeraJoe]

I always thought the Chinese were pinheads.

[ishabibble]

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.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

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.)

[Lady Jag]

When our heads grew, our brains grew and we got smarter.

[Ciexyz]

good humor bump.

[SunkenCiv]

Or Darby Slick...

[diamond6]

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

[SunkenCiv]

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

[skepsel]

Steely Dan?