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That's an unexpected (to me at least) claim to make - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajpa.1330530... - I always thought of sexual dimoprhism (men taller than women on average) as a given and this paper backs up my claim specifically in the context of human societies (where it gives a 10cm height advantage in average in men over women, comparing 216 different societies ). There might be some way of counting in which the converse is true, but not in any way I know. I understand you don't want to dig deeper, but thought I'd flag it in case anyone else unwittingly digests this (possibly wrong) knowldge.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/males-are-the-taller-sex-estr... is an example of a pop-sci article assuming the same basis (written by a biology phd).



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