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  2. Average human height by country - Wikipedia

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    Average male height Average female height Stature ratio (male to female) Sample population / age range Share of pop. over 18 covered [9] [10] [b] Method Year Ref.

  3. Human height - Wikipedia

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    Height measurement using a stadiometer. Human height or stature is the distance from the bottom of the feet to the top of the head in a human body, standing erect.It is measured using a stadiometer, [1] in centimetres when using the metric system or SI system, [2] [3] or feet and inches when using United States customary units or the imperial system.

  4. Sex differences in human physiology - Wikipedia

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    The pelvis is, in general, different between the human female and male skeleton. [12] [13] Although variations exist and there may be a degree of overlap between typically male or female traits, [12] [13] the pelvis is the most dimorphic bone of the human skeleton and is therefore likely to be accurate when using it to ascertain a person's sex ...

  5. Body proportions - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known representations of female figures date from 23,000 to 25,000 years ago. [17] Models of the human head (such as the Venus of Brassempouy ) are rare in Paleolithic art : most are like the Venus of Willendorf – bodies with vestigial head and limbs, noted for their very high waist:hip ratio of 1:1 or more. [ 17 ]

  6. Neuroscience of sex differences - Wikipedia

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    Structurally, adult male brains are on average 11–12% heavier and 10% bigger than female brains. [21] Though statistically there are sex differences in white matter and gray matter percentage, this ratio is directly related to brain size, and some [ 22 ] argue these sex differences in gray and white matter percentage are caused by the average ...

  7. Height discrimination - Wikipedia

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    For instance, in a 2019 survey performed by Ipsos in Hungary with over 500 respondents, the perfect height for men for 53% of participants was between 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) to 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in), while regarding female ideal height, 60% of respondents stated that it should be between 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) and 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in), indicating a ...

  8. Tanner scale - Wikipedia

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    During Tanner V, females stop growing and reach their adult height. Usually, this happens in their mid teens at 14 or 15 years for females. Males also stop growing and reach their adult height during Tanner V; usually this happens in their late teens at 16 to 17 years, [medical citation needed] but can be a lot later, even into the early 20s.

  9. Short stature - Wikipedia

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    Expanding it to all children whose height was below the third percentile would create 90,000 new customers and US$10 billion in revenue. [10] In the early 1990s, they paid two US charities, the Human Growth Foundation and the MAGIC Foundation , to measure the height of thousands of American children in schools and public places, and to send ...