gigantism
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The main limitation of this work is the lack of discussion comparing the team's results with the development of gigantism and long limbs in proboscideans from the same period, according to eLife's editors.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 28, 2023
The ability to continue growing throughout the year may have been a key innovation, sustained by great migrations, that facilitated the emergence of gigantism in early sauropods.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 15, 2023
Knowing that people with gigantism often died young, Hunter offered to buy his corpse.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2023
Since then, scientists who have studied his skeleton have determined that he had a tumor that caused acromegaly and gigantism, conditions in which the body produces too much growth hormone.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2023
I walk to Mom and Dad’s bedroom with the evidence of my gigantism still on my back.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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