(2011-04-28) Fogel Changing Body Evolution

Robert Fogel has a new Changing Body book (ISBN:9780521879750) about changes in human Body Height and Life Expectancy over the millenia. Mr. Fogel and his co-authors, Roderick Floud, Bernard Harris and Sok Chul Hong, maintain that “in most if not quite all parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.” What’s more, they write, this alteration has come about within a time frame that is “minutely short by the standards of Darwinian evolution.”

Does this qualify as Evolution?

Nothing like a nice debate before the book comes out.