Abstract
Stature of Asian peoples in 6 different regions was studied based on the data in MARTIN-SALLER's textbook of anthropology. Peoples are found taller in inland Asia in the middle latitude and in Northwest India, where the climate is rather dry and the land is mostly a desert, steppe or cool highland on which most people lead a nomadic or settled pastoral life. Rice cultivating peoples in Southeast Asia are relatively short. In East Africa, nomadic or pastoral tribes are taller than plant cultivators and collecting and hunting tribes. Correlation coefficients of nations' stature with national average food supplies in 16 European countries are found significant positive with milk and milk products as well as with potatoes and other starchy roots, sugar and syrups, etc. Geographic distribution of stature in France and Spain seems to be related to geology. Geology seemed to effect geographic distribution of stature through drinking water.
