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by snarf21 502 days ago
Really? I was under the understanding that we have continued to get taller and bigger driven by out our access to nutrition and medicine over the last couple of centuries.
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Is this really a genetic adaptation to the environment or rather fulfilling the inherent growth potential that would otherwise be inhibited by nutrient deficiency?
By all the 'no one under 6'2"' tinder jokes I'd say it's being incorporated into genetics.