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Climate change has altered the size of human bodies, researchers suggest
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There is a lot that climate change can be blamed for. Erratic weather patterns, rising sea levels, loss of habitats the list goes on. However, can change in climate lead to changes in the bodies of human beings? Yes, say an interdisciplinary team of scientists. According to a new study, the average size of the human body has fluctuated over millions of years depending on changes in the climate.
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In the study, the researchers from the Universities of Cambridge and Tubingen write that for every degree of warming, there is a 0.87 per cent decrease in body mass. For example, a 2C warming would be associated with a body size decrease of 1kg for someone weighing 60kg. The same trend works in reverse, so for every degree of cooling, body size increases by 0.87 per cent. Being bigger means a person’s mass to surface area ratio is greater, and they are therefore more heat efficient and lose less warmth than smaller people.
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Researchers have found that for every degree of warming, there is a 0.87 per cent decrease in body mass (file photo).