
CircumcisedClown
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if you are short with short parents = your height is genetic
if you are short with average height parents = your height got stunted by environment

Lol, this is so incredibly wrong, it’s hilarious. Anyone can be short/tall because everyone has short/tall ancestors.
Your environment can determine 20% of your height. However, if you live in the West, get at least 5hrs of sleep a night, don’t have severe illness, eat 3 meals a day, etc., you are probably at least 95% of your peak height. Your peak height is genetic, and your environment will determine whether you ever get there.
What this also means is genetics determine your floor height. Meaning how tall you’ll be if everything goes wrong. The Dinka Tribe in Africa has an average height of 6’0” despite being poor as fuck and basically starving. If your max height is 6’5” and literally everything goes wrong, you’ll still probably be like 6’2”.
Also, your size/length/weight out of the womb is a huge indicator of your adult height, assuming you weren’t born premature. This is a combination of nutrition in the womb and genetics. While environmental factors are at play here, you can’t control them, so it might as well be genetic.
I was born like 19in and 7.5 ounces, which is pretty average. I am now 5’10”. Little brother was like 20in and 8 ounches. He’s now 6’0”. My older brother was like 23in and 9.5 ounces or so. He’s now 6’3”. You get the picture.
Also, kids with Down Syndromes are obviously typically short. This is purely genetic. Dwarfism is largely genetic.
On the other side, kids with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (meaning mommy drank while pregant) are often shorter. This is purely environmental.
It’s a combination of 80% genetic factors and 20% environmental factors you can’t control. Also, by the time you’re 16, which is when you first start realizing how important height is, you’re basically almost done growing. You don’t realize how important height is until it’s basically too late to do anything about it.
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