Before and all through our history humans have occasionally spawned Giants. We still see them today. Today we see our human diversity as well as anomalies allow for unseen variation. We have pygmy tribes we see villages where dwarves are far more common than in others etc…just as we see tribes with heights averaging over 6′ and even near 7′ typical humans are regulars in these tribes. So in the distant past with far fewer mating options you know that certain qualities in mates bred out others leaving certain peoples to posess certain advantageous traitts in mate selection. So through closely related selective breeding the average 5′ tall guy in 700bce looking up at me a 6’6″ guy or my 7′ brother is absolutely going to say he saw giants. Now beyond that there are the Hobbits Neanderthals Denisovians and some unknown hominidvin SE asia now. So even there we know hobbits simply micronized for efficiency as other creatures do on islands. Else where we absolutely could have another hominid of 12′ or greater heights within our family tree and while little creatures as hobbits were could hide from us the big ones can not. And IF we lived near giants we killed them. We will destroy anything we feel threatens us and what we like to eat too. But here its the threatening thing thats important. Leaving these great beings as ghosts of a forgotten memory. The idea of 20′ tall and larger D&D giants and Titans however is probably not such a valid scenario, as cool as it would be.
Now think about this. So we have ancient tribes and we humans are not new to earth so over more time than any of us can really imagine, Humans became unique and adapted to their specific environments. LOOK AT OUR DIVERITY that diversity led to some incredibly “specialized” humans. Along with say Being incredibly tall. This tribe also suffers the result of the small gene pool by having qualities like Supernumetal teeth. We see these “2 rows of teeth” type dental deformations in the mound people of Ohio.
Giants could come in many forms from many sources and for all we know each specific instance has its own specific reason for its GIANT. There are so many mysteries left to unveil before we even begin to understand our story
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