Height, Health and History provides an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.

Humans have become much taller and heavier, and experience healthier and longer lives than ever before in human history. However it is only recently that histor

In the maelstrom of current public health debate over the social determinants of health, this book offers a discussion on the roots of prevalent strains of thou

Height, Health and History provides an invigorating statistical edge to many debates about the history of the human body itself.

The biology of people in the past is a rapidly expanding field of historical study. Our capacity to understand the biology of historical populations is experien