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Why are the Dutch so tall? BBC News
The Dutch are, on average, the world’s tallest people, but it hasn’t always been that way.
So what happened? Scientists believe a number of factors are responsible, such as genetics, better diet and medical care.
But now there’s another theory. Research from the London School of Tropical Medicine suggests that natural selection may also have something to do with it.
Jane O’Brien went to the Netherlands to find out more.
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Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić has died in a UN prison at The Hague aged 84.
He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1992-95.
BBC News explores the details of who Ratko Mladić was, what his crimes were, and what unfolded at his trial.
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told the BBC that PC Andrew Harper’s killers will remain behind bars as he announces changes to the early release scheme aimed at easing prison overcrowding.
In an exclusive interview with BBC Breakfast, Burnham said anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from changes brought in under the Sentencing Act, which would have made the killers eligible for early release.
Burnham said extra prison spaces would be created by deporting “hundreds” of foreign prisoners and releasing some inmates serving indefinite sentences.
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Twenty-seven people have been killed and almost 400 evacuated after a Russian strike hit a warehouse near Kyiv, triggering a fire and a series of explosions.
Regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said a further 42 people, including four children, were injured after the Russian drone strike in the Bucha district.
An investigation has been launched into whether ammunition was being stored at the site, where search and rescue operations were ongoing early on Saturday.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement that its forces had targeted “an ammunition depot” in the Kyiv region village of Myla, which stores “components and launch boosters for FP-1/FP-2 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the strike, saying that more than 300 emergency respondents had been deployed to the strike area.
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Norway’s King Harald V has died at the age of 89, after he was taken to hospital last week for treatment for a rare blood condition.
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At least 17 people were killed in the latest round of Russian missile and drone attacks, officials in Ukraine have said.
The country is seeing a surge in the number of civilian casualties, as Russian strikes exploit weaknesses in Ukraine’s air defence systems.
Capital city Kyiv was targeted in the recent strikes, along with cities in the east of the country.
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@gigachad_6862
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
My Indian father is 6'3" and mother 5'4". Final byproduct is my sister with 5'8" and me as male child at 5'11.5"😅
I feel bad to be short of height as my all male cousins above 6'2" height as their mother's were tall.
@70rodal
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
What is an American?
@jamessedoff3877
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
The learned Harvard professor talks of genetics, the Dutch vs the Americans. But can we “Americans” be collectively discussed genetically? Other factors the Americans share like diet, etc, for sure. Maybe I’m losing my mental faculties at 75, or perhaps it’s my distaste and disrespect of the BBC that has suffocated what brain cells I have remaining.
@istoppedcaring6209
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
ok full disclosure we are talking about about 5cm's right?
also the netherlands is mostly mono ethnic, the US has a lot of minorities who generally are smaller, median hight would probably be a better metric
@ruling528
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
The tallest people in the world are actually Montenegrin!
@dinewalton
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
The Netherlands consume alot of milk but they also have one of the highest cancer rates in the world. So is height worth it??
@barryweke
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
I am 6 foot 1 tall and went to Netherlands and felt average 😂
@nanghuaicing
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
I am jealous 🤧.
I am just 5 feet 😭
@libertas5552
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
According to data, 18-year-old men from Montenegro (as a country) are currently the tallest in the world (182.9 cm; almost exactly 6 ft), surpassing their Dutch peers (182.4 cm; 5.98 ft) by half a centimeter (about a quarter inch).
Even so, the Montenegrins don’t stand out among their neighbors. The 18-year-old men from Dalmatia, the southern region of Croatia, measure 183.7 cm (6.03 ft). Croatians in Herzegovina, average 183.4 cm (6.02 ft). In a small, contiguous belt connecting Dalmatia via southern Herzegovina to central Montenegro, the average height is even above 184 cm (6.04 ft).
@zeldapowers8094
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
My boyfriend is Dutch and his whole family is TALL. I’m 5’4
@henryy425
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
It’s because they colonialized Indonesia for such a long time and sending all the nutriuous foods there.
@shivanshgarg206
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
Can dutch men donate their sperms to a couple who wants to have a taller child..??
@Sydebern
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
They now say the average here in the Netherlands is lowering and say it is because of the food.
Well, that's possibly a factor, but of course the greatest reason for the lowering of the average is immigration. But we live in a time that we cannot just be honest about that, so you often don't even see this addressed in articles about it.
The reason we are tall in the Netherlands is obviously not just a food thing. Its also: genetics, ethnicity.
@user-cg7ql1mq8z
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
I'm 8'1
@al-saadmohammad5946
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
Just imagine being a 5'5" in Rotterdam just like me 🤔🤔🫡🫡
@ruzgar1372
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
She’s 20 cm taller than me but we wear the same shoe size
@dahakam3074
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
The Dutch emerged as a product of the founder effect. The original 'ethnic' Dutch were simply taller. This may have provided an advantage or occurred just by chance. Tall stature simply persisted.
@fgcpeak9591
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
women only mate with men 6ft and over, overwhelmingly. that is why.
@fxeditors
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
Makes me wanna go there 🙁
@fxeditors
December 27, 2023 at 11:12 pm
T_T