"And if you need to predict human height in the near future to design a piece of equipment," Gordon says that by and large, "you could use today's data and feel fairly confident."

“如果你需要预测人类不久后的身高来设计一个设备的话，”戈登概括说，“你可以相当自信地使用当今的数据。”

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B. Human height is conditioned by the upright posture.

人类身高由于直立行走的姿势决定的。

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For those of you who love a tall tale, the list of genetic variations that determine human height has just experienced a growth spurt.

对那些喜欢以高个子为主角的奇谈故事的人来说，决定人类身高的基因变异种类突然井喷般增加了很多。

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The overall correlation we arrived at between pay level and job satisfaction was just .15. (For comparison, the correlation between typical human height and weight is .44, and the correlation between IQ scores in identical twins is .86.) This suggests that within an organization, those who make more money are barely more satisfied than those who make much less.

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And the panel expressed concern that techniques developed for therapeutic purposes could be used to enhance human characteristics such as height or memory.

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Consider, for example, the decades of production of a human growth hormone for below-average-height children by the National Pituitary Agency.

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