Eli5 Why are women so much shorter than men?
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Humans are sexually di-morphic. Which essentially means one sex is larger than the other.
Because rape is the natural order of sex in the animal kingdom, what happens is the larger men were more likely to reproduce and pass on their male size genes.
Most of your ancestors are actually female. The overwhelming majority of your ancestors were in fact. The few males historically that were able to reproduce, reproduced with many, many partners.
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