Neolithic Age: the average height of men was 156 cm, and that of women was 148 cm.

Pre-Qin period: the average height of men was 163 cm, and the average height of women was 150 cm.

From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty, the average height of men was 1.69 cm, and that of women was 1.56 cm.

During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the average height of men was 165 cm, and that of women was 154 cm.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the average height of men was 163.5cm and that of women was 152cm.

Ming dynasty: the average height of men was 164.5cm, and that of women was154.5cm. ..

In the late Qing Dynasty, the average height of men was 160.5 cm, and that of women was 150 cm.

At present, the average height of adults aged 65,438+08 and above in China is 65,438+067,438+0 cm and 155.8cm respectively.

In the long history of human development and evolution, human height is constantly changing.

In the turbulent late Qing dynasty, productivity began to decline, people even had problems eating, and the average height even declined.

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Genetic factors of height

It is based on the genetic factors of parents to predict the height of adulthood. There are also several forecasting formulas.

After comparison, the error of foreign formulas is relatively large. After investigating and counting the height of 182 1 young men and women and their parents 1983 ~ 84, Hubei Institute of Physical Education calculated the prediction formula of birth height, which has a smaller prediction error than that of foreign formulas, and has a good application effect in the selection of athletes and the evaluation of teenagers' physical fitness in China. The height prediction formula is as follows: (unit: cm)

Boy height =59.699+0.4 19× father height +0.265× mother height.

Girl's height =43.089+0.306× father's height +0.43 1× mother's height.

The future height predicted by bone age is mainly predicted from the current development level, and the future height predicted by parents' height is predicted from the innate genetic possibility, so the prediction results of the two are completely inconsistent.

It should be noted that because there are many factors affecting height, no matter which method is used for prediction, it is impossible for the prediction formula to take all factors into account, and after prediction in a certain period of time,

Many changing factors, such as nutrition, disease and environment, of the predicted object cannot be predicted. Therefore, although we are sure that these forecasting methods are scientifically based, the trend reflected by the forecasting results cannot be wrong. However, the error of height prediction is always inevitable.

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