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中国考博辅导首选学校 对外经济贸易大学考博英语阅读理解真题指导 I the early 1960sWilt Chamberlai was one of only three players i theNationalBasketballAssociatio (NBA)listedatoverseve feet. If he had played last season, however, he would have bee one of 42. The bodies playing major professional sports have changed dramaticallyovertheyears,andmanagers havebee more tha willing to adjust team uniforms to fit the growing numbers of bigger, longer frames. The trend i sports, though, may be obscuring a unrecognized reality: Americans have generally stopped growing. Though typically about two inches taller now tha 140 years ago, todays people - especially thosebor to familieswho have lived i theU.S. formany generations - apparently reached their limit i the early 1960s.And theyarent likelytogetanytaller.I thegeneralpopulatio today, at this genetic, environmental level,weve pretty much gone as far as we ca go, says anthropologistWilliam Camero Chumlea ofWright StateUniversity. I thecaseofNBAplayers,theirincreasei height appearstoresultfromthe increasinglycommo practiceofrecruiting players from all over the world. PS:The waytocontactyumingkaoboTEL:silingling-liuliuba-liujiu qiba QQ:772678537) （ Growth, which rarely continues beyond the age of 20, demands caloriesandnutrients-notably,protei -tofeedexpandingtissues. At the start of the 20th century, under-nutritio and childhood infections got i theway. But as diet and health improved, childre andadolescentshave,o average, increasedi heightbyabouta inch 中国考博辅导首选学校 and a half every 20 years, a patter know as the secular trend i height. Yet according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,averageheight-5′9″formen, 5′4″forwome -hasnt really changed since 1960. Genetically speaking, there are advantages to avoiding substantial height. During childbirth, larger babies have more difficulty passing through the bi