anthropology p: athabascan or inuit?
by wgoconnel
06/12/2008, 1:31 PM
The Inuit live near the coasts and they are consequently thinner, smaller and shorter (have better bands too - longer songs I think) than the athabascans who have allot of marshmallow pie all over them and live only inland. However, I once met an athabascan who went for airforce training at Texas and then came back to her native land and looked about two feet shorter and smaller than even the Inuit!
The reason for this difference, by my limited ability for extrapolation based upon fleeting experiences, is that inland environments get hotter during the summer even though some can be the same temperature as the coastal climates during the winter; however, the coastal climates stay temperate. Fat is not concocted during the summer, as much as it would be should there be a constant cold temperature, so the athabascans blimp up more than their lean counterparts. Not that this couldn't be controlled for of course, with a little knowledge.
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