How did giant humans interact with others?

Question by Dalton: How did giant humans interact with others?
Or did they interact and why did smaller humans out live giant humans if the giant humans were better or were they? How did they interact culturally and/or did they interact sexually at all?


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Answer by katie
So, I may be foolish bit I'll assume that you are not a troll.

Human height is determined by things like nutrition and genetics. Even though ancient groups of humans may have had, in general, differences in their height, they were still members of the same species. Cultural differences between groups of ancient humans were probably influenced by a whole lot of different things (environment, food, resources), height might not have been that important, overall.

I haven't heard of any evidence of "giant" humans in the past. If you are referencing the stories in the bible, I'm not sure they are all backed up by scientifically valid evidence.

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Would it be possible to genetically engineer giant humans?

Question by Steve: Would it be possible to genetically engineer giant humans?
Most of the world's tallest humans have been found to have achieved their height due to hypertrophy of the pituitary gland, resulting in an abnormally large amount of human growth hormone being supplied to their body.

Since we know what causes great size in humans, would it be possible to scientifically recreate this process, to create taller, stronger humans? Either by intentionally hypertrophing (if that is a word) the pituitary gland, or simply by injecting human growth hormone into the human at a rate comparable to a hypertrophic pituitary gland. What do you think?


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Answer by Lukas Xavier
There'd be built-in limits. Simply "stretching" a human being would result in issues with the back, as you often see in very tall people. In extreme cases, you might also get balance problems. The taller you are, the more stability problems you'd have.

If you made people bigger overall, you'd have to rework the proportions, or the bones wouldn't be strong enough to hold. E.g. if you double the size of a human, you double the thickness of the bones, but you quadruple the weight. Eventually, the bones would simply break the moment you stand up.
To make that work, you'd have to change the proportions to make stronger legs and smaller upper body. They wouldn't look human anymore.

A limited amount of tinkering might well be possible, but not to the point of making actual giants.

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