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An Overview of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700 / Robert W. Fogel, Nathaniel Grotte.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Fogel, Robert W.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Grotte, Nathaniel.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16938.
NBER working paper series no. w16938
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
Summary:
This summary of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700 (Cambridge) was prepared for presentation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health in March 2011. The book is built on the authors' work with 300 years of height and nutrition data and discusses their findings in the context of technophysio evolution, a uniquely modern form of rapid physiological development, the result of humanity's ability to control its environment and create technological innovations to adapt to it.
Notes:
Print version record
April 2011.

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