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April 2, 2026 By arne hendriks Off

At the center of The Incredible Shrinking man’s belief that we should and can become smaller is its most obvious component: the body. Human bodies, especially in the west, have become alarmingly tall in a relatively short period of time since the mid 19th century.…

2000+ Genetic Factors

December 9, 2014 By arne hendriks 1

Since 2007 researchers of the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) consortium are quickly uncovering the polygenic traits that influence human height.  Recently they analysed data from the genomes of another 253,288 subjects and were able to identify 697 gene variants, the pieces of DNA that…