The Changing Body

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 1, 2011

Robert Fogel, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Sokchul Hong, assistant professor of economics at Sogang University in South Korea, discuss their co-authored book The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700, about the way technology has accelerated human evolution.

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