Re: Face size decreases as brain size increases...


Mario Petrinovich wrote:
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"A cephalometric comparison of skulls from the fourteenth, sixteenth and
twentieth centuries"

W. P. Rock, A. M. Sabieha and R. I. W. Evans British Dental Journal 2006;
200: 33-37

"Results suggest that our medieval ancestors had more prominent faces and
smaller cranial vaults than modern man."

There was no snow, at that time, in Europe.

Little Ice Age
The Little Ice Age (LIA) was a period of cooling lasting approximately
from the 14th to the mid-19th centuries, although there is no generally
agreed start or end date: some confine the period to 1550-1850. This
cooler period occurs after a warmer era known as the Medieval climate
optimum. There were three minima, beginning about 1650, about 1770, and
1850, each separated by slight warming intervals [1].

While most believe the LIA to be a global event, some question this.
See Medieval climate optimum for more on this.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

But I know you won't let the facts stand in the way of a good story
Mario...

Ross Macfarlane

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