TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fogel,Robert W.
AU  - Grotte,Nathaniel
TI  - An Overview of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16938
PY  - 2011
Y2  - April 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16938
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16938.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert W. Fogel
Director,  Center for Population Economics
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Suite 367
Chicago, IL  60637
Tel: 773/702-7709
Fax: 773/702-2901
E-Mail: rwf@cpe.uchicago.edu

Nathaniel Grotte
Center for Population Economics
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Suite 367
Chicago, IL  60637
Tel: 773-834-5388
E-Mail: Nathaniel.Grotte@ChicagoBooth.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -