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April 27, 2011

Robert W. Fogel Investigates Human Evolution

Robert W. Fogel Investigates Human Evolution - NYTimes.com

For nearly three decades, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert W. Fogel and a small clutch of colleagues have assiduously researched what the size and shape of the human body say about economic and social changes throughout history, and vice versa. Their research has spawned not only a new branch of historical study but also a provocative theory that technology has sped human evolution in an unprecedented way during the past century.

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