How are the tallest Croats by far the ones with the least Germanic DNA?

[CommonSense]

People keep forgetting that Czechs are tall too. Just sayin', since nobody seems to have mentioned them.

[Jana]

do you have any idea why is north croat sample on k15 a lot more northern than the one on k13? czechs are the first on their cluster in k15, not even slovenes or hungarians

Yes. Because it's made only out of Ph2ter's family members. K13 average is much more reliable.

[Benyzero]

German in genetic terms doesn't = Germanic

Enlighted norb vibes

[Not a Cop]

Sorry, but compared to European average Russians are opposite of tall.

Rather average than short. Average for Russia is stated to be 177, but for Slavic Russians it should be around 178 i guess, averages for Ukraine and Belarus is 178,5, same for Saint-Petersburg, which is still largely Russian, unlike Moscow, which is 177. Consider also that Russian likely haven't yet reached their genetic potential, considering bad climate and not optimal food supply.

[Roy]

It does not seem to be the case:



https://peerj.com/articles/6598/

What about Ghegs? Aren't they supposed to be very tall? Or is it just a wrong stereotype like I always suspected? I remember Albanian forum bragging about 'dem tall Alboz' lol but somehow most of these Albanian members themselves were of average height.

[Art23]

Interesting question. I suppose that Austrians/ SE Germanics aren't particularly tall and in addition they have not contributed much of their genes in Croatia.

[Mingle]

Greeks are taller than Russians are for example, and they are southern Europeans. Or most southern actually. Greeks are above average in stature for Europe.

Greeks are Southeast Europeans, that's why they are not short. Southwest Europeans are short by European standards though. Next would probably be British Islanders, French, and then Russians. The biggest factor here is diet and then HDI not having high proportions of certain genetic groups.



https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...70677X16300065

[Mingle]

Interesting question. I suppose that Austrians/ SE Germanics aren't particularly tall and in addition they have not contributed much of their genes in Croatia.

Austrians are just a Slavic, Germanic, and Celtic mix. Croats also have those components. The biggest reason for height differences is diet.

[Faklon]

Because they are vegans and they don't have to bend their heads in shame.

[HectorOfTroy]

Women yes. Men no. Dalmatians, Herzegovians and Montenegrins are slightly taller than Dutch with difference that their nutrition is still sub-optimal compared to the Dutch.
North-western Germans are tall as well. There are differences inside Netherlands too, southern Dutch are shorter, so if only northern Dutch were counted they would be maybe tallest. But unlike SW Slavs and Nilottes Dutch probably reached their genetic maximum already.

There is another group that is among world tallest and these are southern Nillotes from Africa. And their probably have highest potential for growth due to very poor living conditions they encounter.

Agreed. Nutrition standards in Germanic countries is very good (buy a loaded sandwich for the equivalent of like 4-5 Canadian dollars). Don't know alot of German-descent people where I live but from what I've seen German guys are usually in the average-above average height range (5'11 average usually), and like you said, their genetic potential is probably maxed out. The taller ones I think are the more Scandinavian influenced ones. Scandinavian Y DNA is closely related to South Slavic Y DNA btw (I1 and I2).

And yeah the Russians being tall is probably mostly portrayal from American media hyping them up. Most of the Russian/Ukrainian descent people I've met in Canada (which is very few where I live, mostly Ukrainain descent over Russian here) were definitely below average in height. Then again they also seemed to have bad nutrition. Only have seen 2 tall Russians/ukrainians here