“I joke about this all the time — we’re going to be walking around three feet tall if we keep going the way we’re going,” said Gingerich, a researcher at the University of Michigan and director of its Museum of Paleontology. “Maybe that’s not all bad and, if that’s the worst it gets, it will be fine. You can either adapt, or you go extinct, or you can move, and there’s not a lot of place to move anymore, so I think it’s a matter of adaptation and becoming smaller.”
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It is really getting difficult to keep a polite dispositon when dealing with people who are this idiotic. This man actually thinks that human progress, capitalism, and propserity will drive us to being three feet tall. He does not deserve even any respect at all but deserves contempt. He is driven by upholding political lies and that is all. He deserves ridicule and no respect. He is dangerous given that he holds a position that should be respected and then pushes such lies.
We (meaning all us humans) were quite a bit smaller if you go back 200-300 years. Look at the below-decks space on sailing ships, or the average size of armor, or clothes, or beds.
So it is possible for our size to me “modulated” by circumstance. better food distribution, pesticides, heated buildings, awareness of nutrition factors, medicine, and broadened interbreeding all conspired to make us bigger. Maybe 500 years from now we’ll be bigger yet, or smaller 9see, like global warming’ I’ll cover all of the bases), or maybe the same size.