Comment on Easter diagram
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 days agoMost historical figures would be short by our standards. Modern diets and easy availability of cheap nutrition have added multiple inches to the average height - several when compared to civilizations where famines were common (see North Koreans compared to South Koreans).
stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Isn’t it almost universal that as long as resources are plentiful, organisms drift toward larger sizes?
ZMoney@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Not always, usually it’s an evolutionary arms race though. Recent paper I thought was really cool suggests the initial jump from single to multicellular happened because of a snowball Earth which changed the water temperature and therefore viscosity, making larger size equate to more efficient swimming.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/716634