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The William Harvey Research Institute - Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Why the Dutch are the tallest people in the world

'Humans are growing taller around the world. The average adult today is 5% taller than they were a century ago. But how tall could humans get in the future, and what can we learn from the tallest people in the world – the Dutch?'

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Dr Eirini Marouli, Lecturer in Computational Biology at Queen Mary University of London, was interviewed by the BBC for the development of a BBC Reel on the genetics of adult height.

 

 

 

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