Anonymous The answer regarding the size of men vs women, women are smaller because they've been starved? I think this answer wrong. The great apes all show sexual dimorphism with the males being larger than females. It's not an unusual state of affairs in many other species. The fact that female humans are smaller is simply down to evolution. While I'm open to new evidence to the contrary, I would hope that the writer of this particular answer would examine her bias. Evolution has no evil master plan.

The statement that most species have larger males than females is untrue.

The only studies made on bonobos - our closest relative in other primates, because of the brain similarities I assume you’ve read about in my original post - have all been made on bonobos in captivity, which means they are fed by humans, and humans favor males.

Here’s a source for my original statement.

Edit: I wholeheartedly agree with “Evolution has no evil master plan”; evolution has no plan. Social structures have, though, and I honestly think you are more biased than I am on this subject, as we live in a patriarchal society and have done so for the past 6000 years.

- Pi