why is there more dwarfism among humans compared to gigantism?

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Answer 1

Dwarfism is easier to survive. Less likely to keel over from a heart attack at 14. In history people with giantism very rarely lived long enough to reproduce, so there is proportionally much less of that recessive gene combination in the gene pool.