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I'm just going to look up. Why were people smaller in the past?

What a hilarious?

I'm just going to say evolution. I don't know.

Okay. Courtney, the quick AI overview says people in the past were generally shorter, not due to slow evolution, but largely because of poor nutrition, frequent childhood illness, and bad living conditions.

So limited diets, lack of proteins.

We've evolved to have better health and food so now we can be taller.

I guess.

Do you think that's why I'm so short?

Yeah, because you're malnourished.

You've got to eat your beans, Rebecca.

Your beans and your greens.

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My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith, and this is The Actor Mac.

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Today we're speaking with guest expert Nicholas D. Smith.

Professor Smith was the James F. Miller Professor of Humanities and Professor of Philosophy

at Lewis and Clark College. He has written and edited

many books on ancient Greek philosophy and contemporary epistemology, including Plato's

Socrates, Socratic Moral Psychology, summoning knowledge in Plato's Republic, and Socrates

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