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Tall men have more reproductive success

2000; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 403; Issue: 6766 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/35003107

1476-4687

Bogusław Pawłowski, R. I. M. Dunbar, Anna Lipowicz,

Eating Disorders and Behaviors

Sexual selection is a well established evolutionary process based on preferences for specific traits in one sex by members of the other sex. It is important in the evolution of morphological traits, and several sexually dimorphic traits in humans, such as facial hair and facial shape1, are assumed to be the outcome of such a process. Here we demonstrate that taller men are reproductively more successful than shorter men, indicating that there is active selection for stature in male partners by women.