Taller men are the choices of nature, they get the girls and have more kids
If the players seemed to be tall if all the girls in high school, this is not your imagination. New research shows that the high man more likely to marry and tend to have more children than short-term guy.
What is behind the phenomenon – whether women prefer tall men or men who just more outgoing – is to debate. But the numbers clearly stack on a shorter guy.
Polish and British scientists study the medical records of about 3,200 Polish men, aged 25 to 60 and found that the children of men, an average of 1.2 inches less than men, they have at least one child.
Bachelor of about 1-inch shorter, on average than married men. This is true even after researchers took into account the fact that the men’s high degree of increase in recent decades, due to better nutrition and health.
Records, which were collected in Wroclaw, Poland, from 1983 to 1989, showed that tall men in more than 20 years old, more than 30 years of age and over 40-year-old all have more children than their peers Shorter.
Height does not seem to matter, in the 50-year-old man. Robin Dunbar of the University of Liverpool, this is because these men to the age of the end of World War II – a catastrophe claimed the lives of many Polish men and reduced women’s mating choice.
However, Dunbar said that the figures clearly show that women favor men’s high – some of the other research suggests that is true of all cultures.
“Basically, the agent is a high degree of other variables that women find desirable – men who can protect them, provide them with resources, a good social status, is not easily dominated by other men, said:” Dunbar, professor of evolutionary psychology Science and research cooperation between the author.
Survey results were published in today’s issue of Nature magazine.
Active-duty military officers from military service record of 4,400 men, the researchers excluded men, tall and short-term or unusual. The average height of 3,200 officers and soldiers, part of its records, with the ultimate sample of 5-foot-6.
Researchers refer to study men whose height and reproductive success rate not so large or so small, as a result of the tilt.
Other studies have shown that, on average higher than men have higher income and social status than men short, this study is the first time that a direct link between height and reproductive success, said David Bass, psychology University professor in the University of Texas at Austin.
Bath, he had written to the two books on human mating habits, said women prefer high, men harkens back to the earliest stage of human evolution. This is a time, the prehistoric women to choose partners who can provide them with the best protection and provide for their needs.
“This study shows that even in modern times the kind of choice, we might think of as prehistoric continues to operate,” he said.
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