152: The Genetic Discovery of The Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945

Never before in history has there ever been such a well-documented, yet devastating, famine that affected so many people. In the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945, food got shut off for 4.5 million people of all classes for seven months. The caloric intake dropped to 450 calories per person. Then, almost instantaneously after the war ended, everyone had all the food they needed. The effects of that on that entire population got tracked for a generation. The children born to pregnant mothe...