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Why European have a big size of body than Asian ?

People that come form Europe have a big body than Asian.This is because of human gen or food intake ?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    It's largely to do with diet and evolution.

    Asian people favour carbohydrate over meat and protein, which aids growth. They have also evolved differently over the centuries and possibly did not have the struggle for survival that early European man did.

    This article would might be helpful:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

  • 1 decade ago

    80% is genetic. Europeans tend to be larger (Samoans too, even more so). Africa has both the tallest and shortest. Asian fall in the middle range. But the variation is small enough that there are Asians taller than Europeans. One theory is that larger people have an advantage in cold weather. The size of game may have been a factor. Famines kill people in the order of largest first before smaller. But the differences among populations is generally not all that great.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I will give a religious answer and then a scientific answer to your excellent question.

    1. God made them that way.

    2. Environment and genetics.

  • 1 decade ago

    asians ancestors were probably smaller

    answer mine? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsXDy...

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