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What Limits Our Sexual Differences? Did Men Grow Bigger Because of Sex or Hunting? What Type of Fat Is Most Attractive in Women? What About Men's Bodies?

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Tomas Pueyo
Sep 21, 2023
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The Limits of Sexual Differences

Why are men not even more different from women? What tempered their physical differences?

Why are we not like Maui and Moana (or Vaiana if a patent troll had its way in your country)?

Men are only about 10% taller than women and about 20% heavier. Why not twice as heavy, li…

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