Genetics partially influences height, but other factors, such as nutrition, also affect how tall you become as an adult. The average height of a population can indicate the health of its people since ...

Medically reviewed by Michael Menna, DO Key Takeaways Men in the U.S. are taller on average than men worldwide.Genetics play ...

We’re much loftier than we were 150 years ago. How has this happened, asks Adam Hadhazy, and what will people look like a century from now? Humankind has transformed in the last century-and-a-half.

The average human height has been trending taller for some time now, but some people are growing exceptionally tall. Journalist Sonka Hinders writes about the tallest woman in history and, more ...

The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or Shaquille O'Neal with two bowling pins balanced on his head. Subscribe to ...