The largest hominoid, Gigantopithecus blacki, may have stood at 10 feet tall, but died out a few hundred thousand years ago.
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsThe giants of myth and legend have no basis in reality. Humanlike beings who grow to 20 feet or more are the stuff of fiction, and even far in the past there’s no evidence hominins ever got much taller than we are today.have existed, but they are most often the result of hormonal disorders. Such conditions occur when the body produces excess growth hormone throughout life.
There are few signs that ancient humans ever grew much taller than we do. While anthropologist Lee Berger once claimed that some members of a species of archaic hominin,If anything, ancient humans were shorter than we were. Neanderthals stood, on average, several inches shorter than us.
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