Kyle Harper
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And that's very clear.
Yeah.
Short answer.
Yes.
Long answer.
We know that in the modern world, like say over the last 250 years, first in Western European societies and their settler offshoots and then
more globally and more rapidly globally, there have been really deep physiological changes in the average human, right?
So we're talking about populations with distributions.
And what's happened is really two things.
One is
There's more energy per capita.
So people eat more.
They eat more calories and they eat better calories.
They eat lots of bad stuff too.
But like people eat more.
And two, the burden of infectious disease has been lowered.
And growth, the growth for a human is a very complicated trait that's influenced by genetics.
So I was never destined to be –
You know, super tall.
But it's also affected by environment, which includes, but it's not limited to, what you put in, nutrition, and then what you spend either doing labor or what you spend fighting infectious disease.