The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700 by Roderick Floud, Sok Chul Hong, Bernard Harris, Robert W. Fogel

The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700

Roderick Floud, Sok Chul Hong, Bernard Harris, Robert W. Fogel

431 pages • first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that historians, economists, human biologists and demographers have linked the changing size, shap...

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