Worldwide, the average height for men is slightly less, at 5 feet 7.5 inches. The disparity is largely due to the "averaging out" of heights among countries with taller men and those with smaller men.

Tokyo men's singles Olympic champion Viktor Axelsen of Denmark towers over most of his opponents at about 6 feet 4 inches. It is no wonder that with a roughly 27-inch badminton racket in his hand ...

A 2014 analysis found that men’s height influences society’s perceptions of their mates, their share of household chores and income, and even how old they are when they marry.

Shorter men “routinely get spoken down to just because of this trait that they can’t control,” Alex said. So last January, he got a leg-lengthening operation to increase his height to 5’10".

In men, the X, with its SHOX, is fully active. So is the Y. This means that a woman, with her two X chromosomes, will have a slightly lower dose of the SHOX gene than a man, with an X and a Y. As ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The amount of height men lose as they age is related to their odds of dying as they reach 60s and 70s, a new study shows. Sign up here. Compared to men who lost 1 ...