[N]utritional advantages of the were quite pronounced by the early eighteenth century. Thereafter, the height of the American population was above Eu… - John Komlos

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[N]utritional advantages of the were quite pronounced by the early eighteenth century. Thereafter, the height of the American population was above European norms until the mid-twentieth century, confirming the extent to which the new... environment was favorable from a human biological point of view.

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(born 28 December 1944) is an American economic historian of Hungarian descent and former holder of the chair of economic history at the University of Munich.

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