Human height varies according to both “nature” and “nurture”. The particular human genome that an individual inherits is a large part of the first variable (nature) and a combination of health and environmental factors present before adulthood (when growth stops) are a major part of the second determinant (“nurture”).
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Human height
Posted by Healthy And Fit on May 19th, 2009
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Tags: Adult Females, Adult Height, Adult Males, Bone Growth, Diet Exercise, Dwarfism, Environmental Factors, Epiphyseal Plates, Extreme Poverty, Female Women, Gene Pool, Genes And Chromosomes, Genetic Background, Gigantism, Height Variation, Hereditary Factors, Human Genome, Immigrant Populations, Variable Nature, Vertical Growth 
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