It’s been called the “most significant development in human history” and researchers have been looking into the evolution of human height and overall growth for decades now. The findings are outlined,
The change in human physiology is a result of a number of factors, according to the authors of the study, including food technology, public health, medicine, and sanitation and is resulting in much more dramatic changes than that which could have been predicted by Darwinian methods.
“The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable, This “technophysio evolution,” powered by advances in food production and public health, has so outpaced traditional evolution, the authors argue, that people today stand apart not just from every other species, but from all previous generations of Homo sapiens as well.
According to Mr. Fogel, "If babies are deprived of sufficient nutrition in the womb and early in life, they will be more fragile and more vulnerable to diseases later on. These weakened adults will, in turn, produce weaker offspring in a self-reinforcing spiral."
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