人类学家一直在寻找身高变化的根源。饮食、气候和环境,这些都是与民族间的身高差异存在关联的常见因素。但最近研究者们又发现一条新的线索:死亡率。伦敦大学学院的安德里亚.班贝克.米利亚诺和莫迪尔.吉隆在《当代人类学》上发表了一份研究报告,他们发现,预期寿命较短的族群,其个体成员的 Anthropologists have been looking for the root causes of height changes. Diet, climate and environment are all common factors that are linked to the differences in height between peoples. But recently researchers have found a new clue: mortality. Andriy Bambek Migliano and Modigl Jellon at the University College London published a study in Contemporary Anthropology that found that individuals with shorter life expectancies, individual members