Uriah

But while Houghton begins and ends in the Pacific, I don't think they're the only population who have adapted to wet cold by evolving large, muscular bodies and short, thick limbs. This other bunch was in the news not too long agopic.twitter.com/oXXRoXKery

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson recently deadlifted 1,105 pounds to break Eddie Hall's record, who himself had surpassed Benedikt Magnusson, yet ANOTHER Icelander. There are only 364,000 of these people in the world! These figure show strongest man finalists per mil in the 21st century:pic.twitter.com/GoWafBFYBK

Carleton’s 1939 The Races of Europe has a treasure trove of pre World War II anthropological information, but I can’t find any hard numbers on Icelandic arm span. But my rough impression is that they are extremely short limbed. Here for example is the Icelandic Michael Jordan:pic.twitter.com/LaTPYHA87p

But Coon does have relative span (armspan/height) measurements from many other Europeans and the list helps to identity a third population that has also adapted to wet cold in the accustomed way:pic.twitter.com/ZjzfqbGv3F

Montenegrins were both the tallest and shortest armed people in Europe in 1939 and the same is true today. A 2012 study replicated the finding of a tiny 1.01 wingspan, which is even more anomalous when you consider, as Coon did, that they also have abnormally broad shoulders.pic.twitter.com/umL1WdJ7fP