5 people that are significantly shorter than their fathers

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Quote from: myloginacct on April 09, 2018, 12:34:13 PMBruce, can you find pictures of the Roosmalen and his father?

And honestly, most of the pics are nice to see genetics at work, but most also haven't been under 5'9.

This hurts to look at.



Weirdest thing is that people say Jews are shorter than European average (avg being same as the one in Portugal/Spain/North Africa), but his Jewish side is his father's side.

Since this thread was first created, I believe I have researched enough about height to think most of these cases were by parents who themselves never reached their genetic height potential. However, it could always be some variant SNPs from a 6'1 grandfather randomly appearing again in a grandson.

Yes, I can easily.

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Quote from: myloginacct on April 09, 2018, 12:34:13 PMBruce, can you find pictures of the Roosmalen and his father?

And honestly, most of the pics are nice to see genetics at work, but most also haven't been under 5'9.

This hurts to look at.



Weirdest thing is that people say Jews are shorter than European average (avg being same as the one in Portugal/Spain/North Africa), but his Jewish side is his father's side.

Since this thread was first created, I believe I have researched enough about height to think most of these cases were by parents who themselves never reached their genetic height potential. However, it could always be some variant SNPs from a 6'1 grandfather randomly appearing again in a grandson.

Yes, I can easily.

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Quote from: BruceWayne on April 13, 2018, 10:24:25 PMYes, I can easily.





Funny how his son being physically fit makes the massive difference seem more "normal". Of course, the difference would look ridiculous if his father was in his prime and still ripped.

Do you think you can find out pictures and/or the height of his mother?

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Quote from: BruceWayne on April 13, 2018, 10:24:25 PMYes, I can easily.





Funny how his son being physically fit makes the massive difference seem more "normal". Of course, the difference would look ridiculous if his father was in his prime and still ripped.

Do you think you can find out pictures and/or the height of his mother?

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Quote from: myloginacct on April 14, 2018, 10:52:39 AMFunny how his son being physically fit makes the massive difference seem more "normal". Of course, the difference would look ridiculous if his father was in his prime and still ripped.

Do you think you can find out pictures and/or the height of his mother?

Yes, you can change weight easily and you can't change height.

He told me that his mother is small. The brother Nordin Van Roosmalen is only 5'9" himself.

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Quote from: BruceWayne on April 15, 2018, 07:42:57 AMYes, you can change weight easily and you can't change height.

He told me that his mother is small. The brother Nordin Van Roosmalen is only 5'9" himself.

5'9 is pretty good. He must have a ridiculously short mother (like Jeb's son) or very bad luck with the genetic lottery. Probably both.

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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/was-yao-ming-bred/

I think the author's estimation of heritability is off (granted, it's an article from 2010), there's a lot we still don't know about the genetics of height, but he almost certainly has a much better foundation on the topic than anyone here ("I hold degrees in biology and biochemistry from the University of Oregon, and am currently on leave from the University of California at Davis’ genetics Ph.D. program"). So it's interesting to see the formula and the approach he used to try and predict Yao Ming's expected height.

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James Brolin 6'3" and Josh Brolin 5'10" (5 inches difference!)





EDIT: Ops. Didn't realized he was mentioned on the 2nd page. But here are better pics.

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As you said in the other thread Bruce, once you're a certain height, height differences just don't look so brutal anymore. Yeah his dad is 6'3 and he's 5'10 but the difference between them doesn't even look that big and they both appear to be a respectable height. If he was 5'5 though and his dad was 5'10 I'm almost positive the picture would look very different.

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Quote from: CaptainAmerica on August 19, 2018, 05:26:15 PMAs you said in the other thread Bruce, once you're a certain height, height differences just don't look so brutal anymore. Yeah his dad is 6'3 and he's 5'10 but the difference between them doesn't even look that big and they both appear to be a respectable height. If he was 5'5 though and his dad was 5'10 I'm almost positive the picture would look very different.

They both respectable height, yes (Eventhough technically speaking his father is still superior height). But the difference is quite huge. Look at the 2nd pic.

Of course it's still way better than 5'10" and 5'5".