How tall can a person get ?
Author : Özlem Kahraman
Is it possible for Brobdingnag , the land of giants we encountered in Jonathan Swift ' s famous book , Travels of Gulliver , to exist in real life ? The tallest person on record is Robert Wadlow , known as the " giant of Illinois ." Robert , who was taller than his father when he was only 8 years old , continued to grow until he died at the age of 22 . When Robert died , his height was 2.72 m and his weight was 200 kg . If it were possible to manipulate the genes that determine our height , how tall would we grow ? Is there a natural limit to human height ? How tall can a person get ?