MichaelGR comments on Why Don’t We Apply What We Know About Twins to Everybody Else? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelGR 01 October 2009 08:27:46PM 2 points [-]

The idea that body type is basically determined by genetics simply doesn't work, because current body types diverge rather dramatically from body types of a hundred or even fifty years ago. Genes don't change that fast.

A change in available nutrition in the past few hundred years is probably the biggest factor to explain this.