Genetics is unlikely to be a major contributor to explaining mean differences in height across populations and changes in height over time, despite height’s heritability.

Evidence

Secular trends in growth (Proceedings of the Nutrition Society / Cambridge Core)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Intelligence is malleable and shaped by environment, not fixed by heredity — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 54; Technophysio evolution describes how technology and nutrition advances drove intergenerational rises in human height over the last century, independent of genetic change. — A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs; Genetic causation of a trait does not imply the trait is unchangeable — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 157

Related

• Technophysio evolution describes how technology and nutrition advances drove intergenerational rises in human height over the last century, independent of genetic change. (similarity 0.86)
• Intelligence is malleable and shaped by environment, not fixed by heredity (similarity 0.81)