Why are men (on average) taller than women?

Question

Why are men (on average) taller than women?

Answer 1

Ah, a question here not related to s*x. Those questions make me feel so immature, I can't help but crack up.

I would say hormones.

Answer 2

We men have ten times stronger growth hormones like testosterone so we tend do be taller

Answer 3

hormones and maybe genetics?

Answer 4

Men get more groth hormone at the rigth time. Women are done growing by the age of 15 (very average, very approximate). Men keep growing till they are 20 (again, very approximate). Apparently, it worked best that way with evolution. Note that the tendency for males to be taller than females is not only for humans. It is for many mammals.

It seems like taller men are always preferred by women. These men were more likely to father children, and this keeps happening for a long time, so those genes are preferred and keep propagating. Height and size of a woman seems to be more of a matter of fasion and social circle. Now it's fasionable to be tall and skinny. 100 years ago it was fasionable to be petite. 200 years ago it was fasionable to be plump.

Answer 5

Because God wanted it to be like that. I'm 5'4.