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Comment by j7ake

1 year ago

Yeah it’s terrible. There is also no single height gene, but one wouldn’t say height is more behavioural than genetic.

I agree, but it’s worth pointing out that height is also quite strongly affected by environment (we’ve seen average height grow a lot due to improving diets since the Great Depression).

  • Everything is strongly affected by the environment. For example, if I butcher you, your height will go down. Also all of your organs will stop working.

    But height is not affected by the environment in any meaningful way in a modern first-world context; everyone's diet is already maxed out.