Readit Newsiamjeff commented on The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars nytimes.com/2018/01/31/sc... · Posted by u/montrose
Worthwhile, yes, but harder to do. Those countries have less reliable data to work with, and not such a nice sharp cutoff. Here, babies born in the winters of 43-44 and 45-46 can serve as control groups for those born in the winter of 44-45.
The reliability of demographic data across Sub-Sahara Africa is a significant problem for a multitude of research disciplines.
But there's been a host of severe famines since World War II across the Sahel. It is possible that the reliability of birth data would have improved over this period to a degree sufficient to support research techniques.
In fact, there's been research along these lines in SSA already, especially regarding the impact of malnourishment on intellectual development among other factors.
Still, important research that goes to show that famines have generational effects that extend all the way to the genetic level.
iamjeff commented on The Famine Ended 70 Years Ago, but Dutch Genes Still Bear Scars nytimes.com/2018/01/31/sc... · Posted by u/montrose
It would be equally worthwhile to see the impact of famines in Sub-Sahara Africa on genes of Africans (especially across the Sahel).
Is this in any way based on Amazon Polly?