Editing Anthropometry (section)

==Evolutionary science==
Anthropometric studies today are conducted to investigate the evolutionary significance of differences in body proportion between populations whose ancestors lived in different environments. Human populations exhibit climatic variation patterns similar to those of other large-bodied mammals, following [[Bergmann's rule]], which states that individuals in cold climates will tend to be larger than ones in warm climates, and [[Allen's rule]], which states that individuals in cold climates will tend to have shorter, stubbier limbs than those in warm climates.

On a microevolutionary level, anthropologists use anthropometric variation to reconstruct small-scale population history. For instance, John Relethford's studies of early 20th-century anthropometric data from Ireland show that the geographical patterning of body proportions still exhibits traces of the invasions by the English and Norse centuries ago.

Similarly, anthropometric indices, namely comparison of the [[human stature]] was used to illustrate anthropometric trends. This study was conducted by [[Jörg Baten]] and Sandew Hira and was based on the anthropological founds that [[human height]] is predetermined by the [[Nutrition|quality of the nutrition]], which used to be higher in the more developed countries. The research was based on the datasets for [[Southern Chinese]] contract migrants who were sent to [[Suriname]] and [[Indonesia]] and included 13,000 individuals.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Baten |first1=Jörg |title=Anthropometric Trends in Southern China, 1830–1864 |journal=Australian Economic History Review |date=November 2008 |volume= 48 |issue= 3|pages=209–226 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8446.2008.00238.x }}</ref>