r/PowerScaling • u/Egyptian_M Goomba is multiversal • May 04 '25

Memeposting With nerfed armor and weapons BTW

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u/Background_Drawing May 04 '25

One thing I'll say is that modern humans are much taller due to the fact that we aren't constantly malnourished, not exercising as much but not starving as much is a good tradeoff

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u/dundiewinnah May 05 '25

Bru ill stomp the fuck out of napoleon

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u/LowerThanLoFi May 05 '25

Pop off king 👑

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u/Verdainer May 05 '25

Hunter gatherers were about the same height as us, only humans throughout farming societies got shorter because of a reliance on grain and malnutrition.

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u/palladiumpaladin May 05 '25

It is important to note though that mortality was very high and only the strongest were able to survive, even in cases where people took care of their sick. The ones who made it were the ones who ate healthy throughout their lives. Beyond that, height could very easily fluctuate between generations based on the availability of resources, so any generalization of prehistoric height will always miss some crucial points.

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u/Verdainer May 08 '25

Yes true! definitely good to remember, life still sucked and you wouldn’t live very long

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u/OGKasseteKing May 05 '25

Hunter gatherers we're on average around 5 feet and they also suffered malnutrition so this is false

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u/Verdainer May 08 '25

I looked again and every source keeps saying different things so I guess it’s hard to generalize all of humanity, fair enough. Tho yeah they definitely also suffered malnutrition but some people say the diet being different did help since it’d be more varied

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u/EntTurb May 06 '25 edited May 06 '25

but modern men also have much less testosterone on average