Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — Effect of Climate on Physical Size. [ARTICLE]

Effect of Climate on Physical Size.

Climate or altitude has a great deal tc do with regulating the size of the human species, Dr. Henry Goldthwaite says. “Big men, physically speaking, are not found in tropical countries or low lands. Now, there is Tom Reed of Maine. Any one would know without being told that he came from a cold or mountainous country. Size is not so much a question of eating and drinking and inheritance as it is of locality. I believe that the children of giants, if born and raised iu a low, hot country, would eventually become as small as the average inhabitant of the district.”