What's True About the Evolution of Men's Greater Average Height?
The article discusses the evolutionary reasons behind the average height difference between men and women. It challenges the common belief that testosterone is the primary factor influencing this difference. Instead, it highlights that sex-patterned differences in bone growth are more significant in explaining why men are generally taller than women.
- ▪Human males are, on average, taller than human females due to differences in long bone length.
- ▪The prevailing explanation for height differences has historically been linked to sexual selection and testosterone.
- ▪Recent findings suggest that testosterone may not be the reason for men's greater average height, challenging traditional views in evolutionary psychology.
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Over at ProSocial World's magazine This View of Life, I've got a piece that I'll paste here (though the formatting is better there). It's part of a series Sex, Gender Diversity & Evolution, with editors Joan Roughgarden, Justin Garcia, and Nathan Lents. Thanks to editor Eric Johnson for his stewardship of this piece.What’s True About the Evolution of Men’s Greater Average Height?Why men are taller than women may have nothing to do with testosterone—or sexual selection.No matter where you are on this planet, human males are, on average, taller than human females. Sex-patterned differences in long bone length—specifically the tibia and femur (a.k.a. the shinbone and thighbone)—explain those height differences.
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