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Human size, ever larger

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    Le 19h30
  • 26 July 2016
  • Idris Guessous
    • HUG
    • Médecine, UNIGE
    • Formation continue , UNIGE
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Humanity has gained around ten centimetres in the last hundred years, an international study reveals. Dutch men and Lithuanian women are now the tallest in the world.

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