Sometimes I feel like I was born unto Giants. My family is extraordinarily tall. What about you?
When i was a child, my parents would stand me against the door jamb, and measure me from the bottom of my feet to the top of my head and then make a mark on the jamb.  They would repeat it every year.  I grew to about 6 feet tall.
That's fairly tall! Sounds like you had fairly good nutrition, a good childhood, decent posture and a genetic head start, all of which can influence height. What bout the rest of your family?
Human height
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, usually in centimetres when using the metric system, or feet and inches when using the imperial system.
A particular genetic profile in men called Y haplotype I-M170 is correlated with height. Ecological data shows that as the frequency of this genetic profile increases in the population, the average male height in a country also increases.
inspired from a moment in Coupland’s past. Coupland heard the song "on a friend's mother's record player. And the story threw me: 'Oh my God, what happened to her?' The lyrics didn't tell you much but in my head I always saw her as an only child of very old parents who didn't have a clue and she was left in a rectory and died without leaving any mark anywhere ... The book's not like that, of course, but it's the mood and