Gigantism

biology

Height varies widely among individuals, but the tallest woman and tallest man in the world represent the extremes of human growth. These records are typically documented by stan...

health-and-medicine

Robert Pershing Wadlow, born in Alton, Illinois, near St. Louis, is widely recognized as the tallest man in recorded history, yet his connection to Chicago is often emphasized t...

health-and-science

A person described as a 15 foot tall man is exceptionally rare in any documented context. In clinical medicine, adult human height is constrained by skeletal, hormonal, and gene...

human-height

At 7-foot-8, a person stands 92 inches or about 233.7 centimeters tall. This height is exceptionally rare in the general population and usually reflects specific growth patterns...