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and Seven Baffters including Best Actor Bradley Cooper and Best Actress Carrie Mulligan

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I might. Carrie Mulligan is pure perfection and Bradley Cooper gives the performance of a lifetime.

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I'm Meagnachach Rabardi.

Back in the 1800s,

Americans were the tallest people in the world.

Well, on average at least,

and unfortunately that form of American exceptionalism is long gone.

Nowadays, the average height for American women ranks 58th in the world.

Men 47th. And in fact, the decline in average height for Americans has been going on for quite some time. So what exactly

is going on? What is manifesting itself in American bodies? That's what we're going to

talk about today and joining us now is John

Comlos. He's one of the pioneers of the study of population height and what it

reveals about society and he's a professor emeritus in economics and economic history at the University of Munich in Germany.

Professor Kamlois, welcome to Onpoint.

Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here.

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