[gurps] BioTech-- Eugenics Question

[Onno Meyer]

> Actually, the study that result comes from has really good
> multi-generational data.  Dutch children (women as well) have been
> taller than their parents for the period in question.  There's also
> nice data that shows that children born just before or during WWII are
> shorter than their siblings born after the war.  It's pretty clear
> that height is a complex thing, very largely dependent on environment,
> but with a substantial heritable portion.  The current evidence shows
> that Dutch heights have reached a peak.  We'll see in a 100 years or
> so, maybe.
> David Scheidt

ISTR that North Korean kids these days are significantly smaller than
both South Korean kids and their own parents. Of course hard data is 
hard to get ...