Researchers release a huge dataset tracking average human height in 200 countries, over 100 years.   Childhood poverty can influence a person’s entire life, regardless of whether that person climbs up the economic ladder.  And recent research underscores how poverty can impact people on a permanent biological level.

Read more at  Why are Americans no longer the tallest people in the world? One theory: inequality. – Vox

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