Relationship of lower limb height to sitting height in black populations of Africa and the United States.
This article examines a recently reported generalization. Materials from more than a score of invetigations are drawn upon. These materials show there is not a substantial research base for the claim that interbreeding in the United States between black people of African ancestry and white people of European ancestry has resulted in increased lower limb height relative to sitting height.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People; D001827:Body Height; D002596:Chad; D002648:Child; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D006801:Humans; D007630:Kenya; D007866:Leg / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D011187:Posture; D012737:Sex Factors; D013636:Tanzania; D014481:United States; D001741:Black or African American