Historical paradox.....

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

I think that Caius Fabius has told right things. I can only add a "maybe" further hypothetical consideration: you know that the distance among vertebras, in the spinal column, increases<br>
when the weights are low, or when you are in bed about ten days for a flu, or you are many hours in water... Well, the Romans (more the civilians, less the legionaries, I guess), thanks to their thermae, passed a lot of their time sinked in the water. They were the only people in the history that did it regularly for centuries. Did that behaviour condition (not genetically, of course) the heights?<br>
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The hard military duty of the legionary soldiers, surely got them gradually shorter (even if this could not have a genetic influence, anyway it could have some influence about the measures...)<br>
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Ualete,<br>
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