Scientists report that taller men have greater reproductive success.
In unscientific language, they are more likely to get the girls, and then get them pregnant. Professor Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Liverpool in England, and two Polish collaborators, report in the UK science journal Nature that they analysed data for 4,419 healthy men aged 25 to 60 who had compulsory medical examinations between 1983 and 1989 in Wroclaw, Poland. They matched height against progeny and found that childless men were about three centimetres shorter than men who had at least one child. In all age groups except one, men with children were significantly taller. The exception was the group born in the 1930s.