• Question: why do we get taller?

    Asked by leelee77 to Zena on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Zena Hadjivasiliou

      Zena Hadjivasiliou answered on 9 Mar 2015:


      Hello! Getting taller is part of our development, which started when we were embryos. Isn’t it fascinating that we all start from a single cell?! This single cell, which is a combination of our mother’s egg and our father’s sperm, divides and grows until we become mature babies and ready to be born. But development does not end there! Our organs and size keep changing until the end of our development, which occurs when we become adults. So the change in our height is part of our continuing development until we reach adulthood.

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