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Men around the world have gained height and weight twice as fast as women over the past century, a new study has found. Prof Lewis Halsey at the University of Roehampton and his colleagues used ...

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Women around the world have increased their height and weight at half the rate of men over the last century, widening the physical gap between the sexes, new research finds. For the study ...

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A gender specialist at the University of Genoa, in Italy, a psychologist at the University of Missouri, in the U.S., and a ...

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