An overview of the changing body
Subtitle: health, nutrition, and human development in the Western World since 1700
By: Robert W. Fogel, Nathaniel Grotte
Contributors: Grotte, Nathaniel; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16938; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16938.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  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"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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