How would the human body develop under a different gravity?

What would be the effects of high or low gravity on human body development? How would the human body develop under a different gravity? Many science fiction stories explore the idea that people from low gravity environments would be taller and slimmer, whereas people from higher gravity environments would be shorter and stockier. How realistic is this? How malleable is the human body? I figure that high gravity would lead to a lot of muscle and low gravity to a lot less, but Would the human skeleton really develop to be shorter in a child which weighed more since its birth, or taller in a child who weighed less? I'm interested in the range of 2 to 0 G's.

I'm asking for morphological changes on the human body that are the result of being born and raised in a different gravity. I'm not interested in evolutionary changes as a result of selection over time in that environment.

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