Giant Roman!

National Geographic recently published an article identifying that the bones of person with gigantism had been discovered. The person was between 198 and 204 cm tall. This would have put them more than 30 cm tall than the average Roman citizen.

"To find out if the skeleton had gigantism, the team examined the bones and found evidence of skull damage consistent with a pituitary tumor, which disrupts the pituitary gland, causing it to overproduce human growth hormone.
Other findings—such as disproportionately long limbs and evidence that the bones were still growing even in early adulthood—support the gigantism diagnosis, according to the study, published October 2 in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism."

Using the bold print from the article copied above, identify what the scientists were looking for in the bones that they used as evidence for gigantism.

It isn't terribly strange to have a person that is 200 cm tall at this point in time? What changes have occurred that caused changes in height?