Re: The indo european "race"

A nameless person wrote

> Already in the Antiquity, Julius Caesar says the Germans are
> laughing at the Latins because of their small size, and he often
> call them "giants"! How can it be that, if, say, Germans and Latins
> were a unique people for example in 2000 bc that they physical type
> so rapidally differ?

Easy. The Roman armies were comprised of people who had been
oppressed for a long time, living on an inadequate diet of bread,
lentils and garum (fish paste). Do that for three generations and
your children will be midgets. Similarly, since World War II, the
median height of Japanese children has shot up to equal their
European counterparts. The so called "midget Japs" of WWII are a
thing of the past. Or if more proof is needed - walk into a peasant
hut of the 17th century (and mind your head on the ceiling posts and
tops of the doors!)

Regards

John

> So, do you have explanations why it seems that Germans and Latins

are

> two populations very far from another genetically, though at the

time

> of Caesar they had been separated since only a few thousands years.
>
> PS: do you know something about the hair colour of indo-europeans?

in

> the contrary to what I have said previously, many characters in

latin

> and greek litterature are blond!