Do environmental factors significantly impact height?
Although height is primarily determined by our genes, can changing things like diet during childhood significantly affect our height?
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Peter Visscher has answered Near Certain
An expert from University of Queensland in Genetics
The answer is (clearly) yes: there is a lot of evidence that height increases over time when countries industrialise and/or get wealthier, and this change must be environmental because genetic factors don’t change over short periods of time (e.g. decades). The likely specific environmental factors are abundance of food and better healthcare.
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