Researchers found that while both men and women grow taller and heavier as countries become wealthier, the trend in men is twice that in women.
An international team of researchers analyzed data on the heights and weights of more than 135,600 non-obese men and women from around the world and linked that data with national levels of prosperity. While both men and women grow taller and heavier as countries become wealthier, the researchers found that the trend in men is twice that in women.
The dramatic difference in the increased height between sexes in more prosperous countries also suggests that men’s morphology might be more sensitive to the environment than that of women. In other words, “as ecological or economical situation improves and there is better access to resources, males gain more biological benefits than females. It is exactly opposite when the resources are scarce ,” biologist Bogusław Pawłowski of the University of Wrocław in Poland, who was not involved in the study, told
HEIGHT WEIGHT PROSPERITY SEXUAL DIMORPHISMS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
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