Thus, average height men partly achieved higher reproductive success by marrying at a younger age.
Average height men also married at a younger age than shorter and taller men, and the effect of height diminished after controlling for this association.
We therefore suggest that the most likely pattern with respect to the association between male height and reproductive success is average height men having most children.
Regression analyses were made in SAS 9.1 and showed a significant correlation between the body height (men and women) and the length of the ulna.
Thus, average height men attained more reproductive success by marrying at a younger age, potentially due to an increased length of the reproductive window.
However, average height men did marry at a younger age, suggesting that, to the extent that age of marriage is a proxy for mate value, average height men were more successful in finding a mate than either taller or shorter men.
In Wisconsin high-school graduates, average height men, compared to shorter and taller men, attained the highest reproductive success as measured by the number of children ever born and the number of children surviving to reproductive age.
Decrease in height (men: 4±0.9 cm, women: 5.6±0.8 cm), weight (men: 4.3±0.2 kg, women: 3.7±6.3 kg), SST, arm- and calf circumferences were seen in both sexes with cognitive impairment.
For a given BMI and waist circumference, or percentage fat mass and height, men and women with smaller thighs had an increased risk of early death compared with those with larger thighs.
Despite this limitation we still conclude that average height men had more reproductive success than their shorter and taller counterparts, as both the average height of the population as well as the national average height fell within the confidence interval for the estimated optima for number of children surviving to reproductive age (173.54 180.38 cm).
Poisson and logistic regressions showed no linear or curvilinear effects of height on the number of marriages or the chance of being married (Table 3), but a linear regression on age at first marriage (log transformed to normalize its distribution) revealed that there was a curvilinear relationship between height and age at first marriage; average height men married youngest (Table 3).
