Table 1.

Human genome length estimates

References	Meters
Web sites
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1998/StevenChen.shtml	Diploid: 1.5–3
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb99/917376364.Mb.r.html	Haploid: 1
http://book.bionumbers.org/how-big-are-genomes/	Diploid: 2
https://publications.nigms.nih.gov/insidelifescience/genetics-numbers.html	Diploid: 1.8a
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=144	Haploid: 1.8
Articles
[8]	Diploid: 2
[9]	Diploid: 2
[10]	Haploid: 1.5
Books
[7]	Diploid: 2
[11]	Haploid: 1
[12]	Diploid: 2
[13]	Diploid: 2

^aThis value was converted from the stated 6 feet