<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">That would be easy to test: Do taller than average females have higher testosterone levels and shorter than average males have lower testosterone levels? I’m sure someone has done studies...<div><br></div><div>By the way, the relationship appears a bit more complicated:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020533">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0020533</a></div><div><br></div><div>Note the hypothesis at the end there: males have slower maturation to slow down their height increase to historically minimize maternal cost. (Why not parental cost — as humans _historically_ have both parents involved in childcare?)</div><div><br></div><div>See also:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140207083836.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140207083836.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Since generic and hormonal factors aren’t outside social influence and since food consumption also influences height, there’s also the issue that males tend to be better fed than females. Cf., e.g., </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167551/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167551/</a><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 13, 2019, at 6:26 AM, Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Higher Testosterone -> Higher levels of growth hormone-> greater height in men. I would also suspect that there is a natural selection in play for larger men who are able to impregnate more women. There are other theories, but the above combination makes the most sense to me.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 9:16 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Why are women shorter than men? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill wM</div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>