TALL men have more children than their shorter friends—because they
have more wives, a pair of researchers have found. They say that could lead to
an evolutionary trend towards ever taller men, because height is estimated to be
up to 90 per cent genetic.
Ulrich Mueller from the University of Marburg in Germany and his colleague
Allan Mazur from Syracuse University, New York, studied a group of men who
graduated in 1950 from the US military academy at West Point. They found that
the taller men in the class tended to have more children, no matter what their
rank.…
