Giants Were Probably Real… Here’s Why

Could myths of giants, told in ancient legends, be distant memories of something real? Ancient humans might have encountered… actual giants.

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If evolution can give us hobbit humans on an island like Flores...And it can give us giant apes in Southeast Asia…

Then what’s to say it couldn’t also give us giant humans?

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