Why do humans cannot grow as giant where dinosaurs and some plants in prehistoric times can?

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Is it related to food? Or genetics or climate or something else? Thank you!

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One consideration is the square cube law, as size increases propotionately, surface area is sqauared and volume is cubed. So you get heavier very fast, which takes different strategies to counteract. The tallest humans that have lived have had many health problems as a result.

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