Editing Anthropometry (section)

====Height====
{{main|Human height}}
[[Human height]] varies greatly between individuals and across populations for a variety of complex biological, genetic, and environmental factors, among others. Due to methodological and practical problems, its measurement is also subject to considerable error in [[statistical sampling]].

The average height in genetically and environmentally [[Homogeneity (statistics)|homogeneous]] [[population genetics|population]]s is often proportional across a large number of individuals. Exceptional height variation (around 20% deviation from a population's average) within such a population is sometimes due to [[gigantism]] or [[dwarfism]], which are caused by specific [[gene]]s or [[endocrine]] abnormalities.<ref>Ganong, William F. (Lange Medical, 2001) ''Review of Medical Physiology'' (pp. 392–397)</ref> It is important to note that a great degree of variation occurs between even the most 'common' bodies (66% of the population),<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gill|first1=Simeon|last2=Parker|first2=Christopher J.|title=The True Height of the Waist: Explorations of Automated Body Scanner Waist Definitions of the TC2 scanner|journal=Proc. Of 5th Int. Conf. On 3D Body Scanning Technologies|date=2014|pages=55–65|doi=10.15221/14.055|isbn=9783033047631}}</ref> and as such no person can be considered 'average'.

In the most extreme population comparisons, for example, the average [[female]] height in [[Bolivia]] is {{convert|142.2|cm|ftin|abbr=on}} while the average [[male]] height in the [[Dinaric Alps]] is {{convert|185.6|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}, an average difference of {{convert |43.4 |cm|ftin|abbr=on}}. Similarly, the [[List of shortest people|shortest]] and [[List of tallest people|tallest]] of individuals, [[Chandra Bahadur Dangi]] and [[Robert Wadlow]], have ranged from {{convert|53-272|cm|ftin|frac=2|abbr=on}}, respectively.<ref name="GWR-Dangi">{{cite web|url = https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2012/2/shortest-man-world-record-its-official!-chandra-bahadur-dangi-is-smallest-adult-of-all-time|title= Shortest man world record: It's official! Chandra Bahadur Dangi is smallest adult of all time|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120228213528/http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2012/2/shortest-man-world-record-its-official!-chandra-bahadur-dangi-from-nepal-is-smallest-adult-of-all-time |archive-date=2012-02-28 |work = Guinness World Records|date = 26 February 2012|url-status = live}}</ref><ref name="GWR-Wadlow">{{cite web|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/tallest-man-ever |title=Tallest Man Ever |date=27 June 1940 |publisher=[[Guinness World Records]] }}</ref>

The age range where most females stop growing is 15–⁠18 years and the age range where most males stop growing is 18–⁠21 years.<ref>{{cite web |title=2 to 20 years: Girls Stature-for-age and Weight-for-age percentiles |url=https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set2clinical/cj41c072.pdf |website=CDC |access-date=2 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=2 to 20 years: Boys Stature-for-age and Weight-for-age percentiles |url=https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41c021.pdf |website=CDC |access-date=2 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Growing Taller –At What Age do Men Stop Growing? |url=https://upsmash.com/story/growing-taller-at-what-age-do-men-stop-growing/ |website=Upsmash |date=20 July 2017 |access-date=2 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Aronson |first1=Anna |title=Does Your Height Increase After You're 21? |url=https://www.livestrong.com/article/352563-does-your-height-increase-after-youre-21/ |website=Livestrong |access-date=2 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Georgoff |first1=Victoria |title=When do girls stop growing? |url=https://www.care.com/c/stories/4218/when-do-girls-stop-growing/ |website=Care.com |date=31 July 2015 |access-date=2 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Physical changes in puberty: girls and boys |url=https://raisingchildren.net.au/pre-teens/development/puberty-sexual-development/physical-changes-in-puberty |website=raisingchildren.net.au |access-date=3 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Investigations on Skeletal Growth Zones via Bone Scans as Base of Determination of Optimal Time for Surgery in Mandibular Asymmetry |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10984887/ |journal=Nuklearmedizin. Nuclear Medicine |year=2000 |publisher=NIH |pmid=10984887 |access-date=26 June 2020|last1=Reuland |first1=P. |last2=Werz |first2=R. |volume=39 |issue=5 |pages=121–6 |doi=10.1055/s-0038-1632257 |s2cid=43341029 }}</ref>