Nobel laureate Robert Fogel\'s compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology from 1700 to 2100.
Larger, healthier humans have contributed to the acceleration of economic gro.
Although throughout most of human history, chronic malnutrition has been the norm, a synergy between improvements in productive technology and human physiology has enabled humans to more than double their average longevity and to increase their body size by over fifty percent over the past three centuries.
Nobel laureate Robert Fogel\'s compelling new study examines health, nutrition and technology from 1700 to 2100