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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5578986" data-attributes="member: 177">I stand corrected.&nbsp; It seems you are correct for the tropicals one usually keeps in home tanks. Any number of species, however, can have their size controlled by diet - even humans.&nbsp; There's a clear correlation between the average height of humans and the amount of protein and calcium in their diet, for example.&nbsp; And this isn't at the level of &quot;malnourishment&quot;.&nbsp; I'm over six feet tall.&nbsp; With a diet lower in certain nutrients when I was younger, I might have been perfectly healthy but only 5'10&quot; tall.There are also any number of examples where we can point to environment impacting the development of some species.&nbsp; There are fish and frogs, for example, that can undergo change of sex depending on what is in the local populations.&nbsp; And for pretty much all invertebrates, life comes at them in several stages, and they transform from one to another.So, maybe a goblin's one stage, an orc the next, then ogre, then hill giant, all triggered by age, or some other factor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 5578986, member: 177"] I stand corrected. It seems you are correct for the tropicals one usually keeps in home tanks. Any number of species, however, can have their size controlled by diet - even humans. There's a clear correlation between the average height of humans and the amount of protein and calcium in their diet, for example. And this isn't at the level of "malnourishment". I'm over six feet tall. With a diet lower in certain nutrients when I was younger, I might have been perfectly healthy but only 5'10" tall. There are also any number of examples where we can point to environment impacting the development of some species. There are fish and frogs, for example, that can undergo change of sex depending on what is in the local populations. And for pretty much all invertebrates, life comes at them in several stages, and they transform from one to another. So, maybe a goblin's one stage, an orc the next, then ogre, then hill giant, all triggered by age, or some other factor. [/QUOTE]

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