Valdosta State University, 1500 North Patterson St., Valdosta, GA 31698, USA.
Econ Hum Biol. 2013 Jan;11(1):69-77. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2012.03.005. Epub 2012 Mar 30.
We analyze data on the height of Scottish men, both civilians and members of the military forces serving in World War I measured in the 1910s, in order to provide another window into the biological well-being of late nineteenth-century birth cohorts. The evidence indicates that rural residents still had a distinct height advantage over their urban counterparts and that military men displayed a slower growth profile than did civilians, but mean heights for the two groups of adults were similar. Mean stature for both groups is well above those found by Floud for British troops born in the 1880s and greater than that of Scottish convicts from the 1830s. Men who were in utero between 1889 and 1893 were slightly stunted, "marked for life" by an encounter with the Russian influenza which struck the region repeatedly.
我们分析了 20 世纪 10 年代苏格兰男性的身高数据，这些男性包括平民和在第一次世界大战中服役的军人，以便进一步了解 19 世纪后期出生队列的生物健康状况。证据表明，农村居民的身高仍然明显优于城市居民，军人的生长速度比平民慢，但这两组成年人的平均身高相似。这两组人的平均身高都远高于弗卢德（Floud）为 19 世纪 80 年代出生的英国士兵所发现的身高，也高于 19 世纪 30 年代苏格兰罪犯的身高。1889 年至 1893 年期间在子宫内的男性则略有发育迟缓，因为他们遭遇了反复袭击该地区的俄罗斯流感，“一生都受到影响”。
