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Stature variation suggests relatively reduced health for early European farmers (pnas.org)
14 points by diodorus on May 30, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



"in addition to environmental effects like childhood nutrition and disease, inherited genetic variation can have an outsized impact on terminal stature, with ∼80% of the considerable degree of height variation within many modern populations explainable by heritable genetic variation"

Genes account for most differences




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