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Height and Chromosomes: Why My Tall Wife Didn’t Save Our Kids From My Average Genes
I married my wife because I love her, and she completes me in many ways. That said, one of the benefits was that while I was average in height, she was taller, so I hoped that breeding for height might be at play.
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