Stature variation in the British American Colonies: French and Indian War records, 1755-1763.
Personnel records kept by military units of American colonials during the French and Indian War (1755-1763) are analyzed for relationships between environmental factors and stature. A robust American economy and direct access to high-quality food were apparently critical to tallness of this white American male sample. American-born men were taller at all ages than those who had migrated from Europe. January temperatures, rural versus urban birth, and ethnicity also showed stature relationships within the American-born group; thermal effects were by far the strongest of the non-nutritional factors.
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Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo 14261.
Haseley
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000885:Anthropology, Physical; D001827:Body Height; D005006:Ethnicity; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013696:Temperature; D014481:United States