Show < f THE CURIOSITY SHOP the Interesting Information on 4 Some evolution of Tall Men In a lecture delivered at tho Royal Institute Insti-tute by Professor Flower on Tho Pigmy Races of Men he referred to the curious fact t that tho taUes and shortest races In Europe are respectively tho Konvegians and the Lapps living in almost the same region In Africa also the diminutive Bushmen and tho tallest race of tho country tho Eafflrs are closo neighbors These facts indicate that climate soil and other physical conditions condi-tions have but small influence on human stature stat-ure and suggest the question whether it is duo to social or moral agency Tho comparative compara-tive history of the Lapps and Norwegians indicates in-dicates that it may be so The Vikings were always a fighting race tho Lapps certainly are and so far as we know always have been an exceptionally peaceful people and the Esquimaux with whom they are so nearly connected are the same The Lapps live on the snow fields of Norway Nor-way and tho Esquimaux on tho bitterest parts of tho Arctic regions just the places to which the weakest would driven by conquerors con-querors who have appropriated tho more fertile fer-tile regions The consequent hardship and semistarvation would probably stunt the growth of tho weaker people while on the other band tho conquering warlike race in tho days of hand tohand fighting with outsiders out-siders and struggling chieftainship would be continually killing off the feeble and multiplying mul-tiplying the big men by tho survival of the fittest for such conditions of mutual rout der striving |