geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate, median income, and population density. We find that after adjusting … for variables known to influence height such as income and education, population density is negatively correlated with … height among white men, but only marginally among white women. Similar analysis of Body Mass Index (BMI) also shows a …

The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have …, which clearly fuelled the fires of revolution. The height of the French upper classes was 7 cm above average, but, that, too …

We estimate the height of various European populations in the first half of the 18th century. English and Irish male … and convict servants in colonial North America, whose height is estimated as between 66.4 and 67.0 inches (168,7 and 170 … height distribution in this period. The English were about as tall as Bohemians and French, but shorter than the Irish and …