Given the availability of large longitudinal data sets on human height and weight, different modelling approaches are at hand to access quantities of interest relating to important diagnostic aims.

When it comes to height, our fate is sealed along with our growth plates—cartilage near the ends of bones that hardens as a child develops. Research publishing April 14 in the journal Cell Genomics ...

In a study of mouse and human genes, scientists pinpointed 145 genes that regulate the cartilage cells in kid's growth plates and could determine how tall they grow. When you purchase through links on ...

Take a look around at your fellow humans—this may be as good as it gets. We have reached our peak in terms of lifespan, athletic performance and height, according to a new survey of research and ...

Robert Fogel, winner of a Nobel Prize in economics, has a new book coming out arguing, according to an account in The New York Times, that gains in human height constitute "the most significant ...

The average height of a Na’vi — the blue cat-like people of James Cameron’s Avatar movies — is around 10 feet. By comparison, average human height is well below 6 feet. That’s about waist level for ...