Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect. It is measured using a stadiometer...

Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. With regard to the first table, original studies and...

ground. Thus, elevation plus height can equal altitude, but the term altitude has several meanings in aviation. Human height is one of the areas of study...

Height can significantly influence success in sports, depending on how the design of the sport is linked to factors that are height-biased due to physics...

Height discrimination (also known as heightism) is prejudice or discrimination against individuals based on height. In principle, it refers to the discriminatory...

candidates of the United States is useful for evaluating what role, if any, height plays in presidential elections in the United States. Some observers have...

The study of height and intelligence examines correlations between human height and human intelligence. Some epidemiological research on the subject has...

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The modern term "body mass index" (BMI) for the ratio of human body weight to squared height was coined in a paper published in the July 1972 edition...