The Jawbone and teeth of a adult modern human man, on the right, compared to that of a male Gigantopithecus, on the left.
The teeth and jaws range from twice to four times the size of "modern man's".

Id dislike anyone who claims to know things they dont and makes their living by copying what others have done before them. 

It would also be nice if when they discover burial chambers of giant humanoids with horns and dual-rows of teeth if it would get decent airtime, too.
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*claps*

I return back to, "Mainstream science would like to beleive the world is simple and reasonable."
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Here's something that's always interested me. The Cherokee have legends of thier ancestors co-existing with a tribe of giant humans, although say were said to be sub-intelligent and violent..Eventually; it was said that the Cherokees were forced into war with them and drove them from thier territory..
At about the same time frame, The Sioux indians of Minnesota have legends of warlike giant men migrating to thier land from the east. They were such bad neighbors apparently, the Sioux wiped them out completely..
Of course these are legends passed on orally, so I can't really vouch for thier truth..
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My favorite subject of all time!

I've heard nothing new though, seen nothing new.  The only hope I have is for someone to come up with a geuine artifact and not wind up dead or the artifact missing.

Plenty of stories and traditions from around the world though.  It's one of those things I just have this complete utter faith that it's true.  Thank God I'm not the only one that at leasts questions the scientific community.  Question them and admit you're christian and wow, life suddenly becomes pretty difficult.
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so ur 25% taller than an average uk man?  
7 foot3/4???  
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I think that at some time in hominid history a giant humanoid could very well have existed.

Check out this pic!
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Further reputed evidence of giants from a website,

Australia
Bathurst
In fossil in the 1930's deposits found around Bathurst from a depth of 6 feet below the surface a fossil lower back molae tooth was found. The owner would have been at least 25 ft. tall. Also found were huge stone artifacts -- clubs, pounders, adzes, chisels, knives and hand axes all of tremendous weight, scattered over a wide area weighing from 8 to 25 pounds, implements which only men of tremendous proportions could possibly have made and used. Estimates for the actual size of these men range from 10 to 12 feet tall and over, weighing from 500 to 600 lbs.

Gympie
At Gympie, Queensland, a large fragment of the back portion of a jaw which still possessed the hollow for a missing lower back molar tooth was discovered. The owner of the tooth would have stood at 10 feet tall.

Blue Mountain
In the Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains NSW, a depression found in ironstone protruding from a creek bank was the deeply impressed print of a large human-like foot. This footprint measures 7 inches across the toes. Had the footprint been complete it would have been at least 2 feet in length, appropriate to a 12 foot human. The largest footprint found on the Blue Mountains must have belonged to a man 20 feet tall!

Mulgoa
A set of 3 huge footprints was discovered near Mulgoa, south of Penrith, N.S.W. The prints, each measuring 2 ft 7 inches across the toes, are 6 ft. apart, indicating the stride of the 12 ft. giant who left them.

Macleay River
Noel Reeves found near Kempsey, N.S.W. monstrous footprints were discovered in sandstone beds on the Upper Macleay River. One print shows toe 4 inches long and the total toe-span is 10 inches suggesting that the owner of the print may have been 17 feet tall.

Aborigine
Aborigine themselves admit in their ancient folklore that this land was inhabited by several groups of men, as well as giants, before they settled here.

Austria
Aymon
Aymon, a member of the Archduke Ferdinand's bodyguard, reportedly stood eleven feet tall. For many years a carved wooden likeness of this giant was preserved in the Castle of Ambras in the Tyrol Alpines.

Battle of Noreia
In 113 B.C., Rome dispatched an army to check the migration of three hundred thousand Cimbri and Teutone warriors, plus their women and children who followed them in leather-covered wagons. Led by Papirius Carbo, the Roman legionnaires engaged these German giants in battle at Noreia in Styria and were annihilated by them.

Josef Winkelmaier
An Austrian named Josef Winkelmaier was exhibited in London on January 10,1887 who claimed a height of eight feet nine inches.

Bavaria
Ænotherus
In his Annals of Bavaria, Aventine writes that a giant named Ænotherus, who threw down whole battalions like mowing grass, fought on the Emperor Charlemagne's side. The huge warrior hailed from Turgan, near the Lake of Constance.

Belgium
Flanders' Giants
In his Origines Antwerpianoe, 1569, and De Gigantomachia, royal physician Johannes Goropius Becanus reports that a youth almost nine feet tall and a woman about ten feet tall lived near his home in Flanders.

Chad
In 1936, two French archaeologists, Lebeuf and Griaule, on an expedition to Chad in North Central Africa, dug up several egg-shaped funeral jars that contained the remains of a gigantic race, along with pieces of their jewelry and their works of art.1 The giants, according to the natives, were called the Saos.

Chile
From account of Captain George Shelvock's 1719 voyage: "M. Frezier gives us an account that the Indians inhabiting the continent to the south of this island (the island of Chiloe, which lies off the coast of Chile, about lat. 42 S. and long. about 72 W of London) are called Chronos, that they go quite naked, and that in the inland part there is a race of men of an extraordinary size, called Cacabues, who, being in amity with the Chronos, have sometimes come with them to the dwellings of the Spaniards at Chiloe. He adds, that he was credibly informed by several who had been eye witnesses, that some were about nine or ten feet high.

China
The Chinese, in whose land archaeologists have found some of the earliest skeletal remains of giants, insist they once had among them some men as much as fifteen feet tall.

Peking Giants
Melchior Nunnez, in his letters from India, vouches for the fact that China grew some giants to that tremendous size. He "speaks of porters who guarded the gates of Peking who were of that immense height; and in a letter dated in 1555, he avers that the emperor of that country entertained and fed five hundred of such men for archers of his guard." George Hakewill, in his Apologie, 1627, issues a similar report

Chang Woo Gow
The Chinese giant Chang Woo Gow showed himself in England in 1865 at the old Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly. A courtly gentleman and able scholar, he was invited to visit the Prince and Princess of Wales. He stood eight feet two inches. He was not the tallest in his family, however, for one sister measured eight feet four inches.

Chinese Colossus
Purchaas, in his Pilgrimes, 1625, says that while he was in China he saw a man who "was cloathed with a tyger's skin, the hayre outward, his armes, head, and legges bare, with a rude pole in his hand; well-shaped, seeming ten palmes or spans long, his hayre hanging on his shoulders."

Cornwall
            Cornwall was known as the Land of the Giants. The Cornish giants were a six-toed, six-fingered race, some known to be gentle.
Cormoran and his blind wife Cormelian lived on St Michael's Mount.
Holiburn of Carn Galva protected the people of Morvah and Zennor.
Denbras lived in the Towednack hills.
Myen du lived at Maen Castle near Land's End.
Dynas, a deaf and dumb giant Treryn, lived in the stronghold of Dinas.
Bolster lived in Beacon.
Jack the Tinkeard or Jack of the Hammer, perhaps the original giant-killer, found his fame here.

Antony Payne
By the time the Cornish giant Antony Payne reached his twenty-first birthday he already stood seven feet two inches. After his father, a tenant farmer at Stratton, "attached" him to the house of Sir Beville Granville of Stowe, his landlord, Tony grew two more inches. For all his size and bulk, the witty Payne showed no signs of clumsiness, but awed everyone with his dexterity and very quick reflexes. They also say he had the brains to match the brawn that had thrust him into the role of a mighty man.

Tregoney Giant
While working in a new tin mine at Tregoney-on-Fal, in Cornwall, reports the Annual Register for 1761, a miner discovered a stone coffin on which some unrecognizable characters were inscribed. Inside the ancient eleven-foot-three-inch casket he saw the gigantic skeleton of a man, which, when exposed to the air, crumbled to dust-except for one tooth, which measured two and one-half inches in length.
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"wheres goliath"


his body was last seen lying in a valley in Elah headless
and his head was given to king Saul.
so its probably on a pike somewhere
   
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I was thinking, would an environment with less gravity contribute to larger than now versions of creatures. Maybe there was a change in gravity that lead to all large species to evolve into smaller versions of themsleves. I think this because I am 6'3" and being this tall is really hard on the body. I could never imagine being taller than 7 feet tall. It would take just too much energy out of you and the wieght alone would stress your bones. So when you think about it, goiing smaller is only a logical direction for species to evolve toward.
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That is exactly what I have thought for a long time because when you think about it there are no land animals around now that are anywhere near as big as the dinosaurs were so what has changed to make an elephant considerably smaller than, say, a diplodocus. I believe that when the dinosaurs roamed the earth gravity was considerably weaker than it is now, probably something to do with the viscosity of the mantle layer.
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environment has a major factor.
if its advantageous to be giant sized, then we will all be giants.
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because we are far more intelligent, we can work around any disadvantage and make it into an advantage.
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It is advantageous to be tall, yet we aern't all tall.
Natural selection works in almost all models except modern man.
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No, the theory is GIANT aliens comming from another world to mate with earth women. Earth women are hot!
   
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glad I'm not hot
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You probably are, and are just trying to throw them off the scent.....
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