John W Burgeson wrote:
>
> Hammond wrote: "However, recently (50 years ago) science
> discovered something called the SECULAR TREND in human growth. They
> discovered that each succeeding generation is more fully grown than
> the last, and that this has been going on for thousands and thousands
> of years... forever in fact. "
>
> Could you give a citation on this? For the word "science" in the first
> sentence, who?
>
> John Burgeson (Burgy)
[Hammond]
Sorry, I just noticed your post on my computer from 9 days ago.
A Google search of "Growth Secular Trend" will turn up
scores of papers and summaries. However, it has recently made
the front cover of TIME MAGAZINE:
http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/rsteckel/Articles/time.htm
(Time Magazine Article, Oct 1996)
Incidentally it is such a standard science topic that you can find an
article on it in a 20 year old Encyclopedia Britannica or any equivalent
library source.
Although the above article discusses only height, obviously it is
a general overall extension of the human growth curve, e.g. an
ever increasing advance of the phenotype towards the genotype..
which I guess is pretty much a biological definition of Pilgrim's
Progress.
>
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