Grajales-Porras, Agustín; López-Alonso, Moramay - In: Economics & Human Biology 9 (2011) 3, pp. 265-271
We present a first glimpse of the mean height of men in eighteenth century Mexico based on evidence from the Revillagigedo Census of 1791-1792. Mexican men were shorter than those of Europe and North America. For example, contemporary French men were about 165Â cm and US men were about...