现代中国人身高的变异

本文依据16个省汉族和23个少数民族身高平均值,运用方差分析法分析和讨论了当代中国人身高的地理变化,男女两性身高的群体变化趋势。

VARIATION OF STATURE OF MODERN CHINESE

In this paper the stature of Chinese in 16 different regions and 23 minorities was studied based on the data of the author's surevy in 1979-1980, and the data from literatures. From the analysis of geographic distribution of the stature of Chinese including Han nationality and minorities, we can see that the averages of the statures of different regions have a gradient from larger mean stature in the north to smaller in the southwest. The means of the stature of the peoples living in the Haunghe River valley and the northern and the nor-thwestern China are largest (over 167 cm). In the central and the southeastern China, the stature is slightly smaller than that of in thenorth and the northwest. The means of their stature belong to middle type. The means of the stature of the peoples living in the southwes-tern region are smallest and below 164 cm.