Does natural selection favour taller stature among the tallest people on earth?

Non-linear associations between stature and mate choice characteristics for American men and their spouses

(2014) Gert Stulp et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Statistical Power to Detect Genetic (Co)Variance of Complex Traits Using SNP Data in Unrelated Samples

(2014) Peter M. Visscher et al.   PLoS Genetics

The height of choosiness: mutual mate choice for stature results in suboptimal pair formation for both sexes

(2013) Gert Stulp et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Are Human Mating Preferences with Respect to Height Reflected in Actual Pairings?

(2013) Gert Stulp et al.   PLoS One

Height, Age at First Birth, and Lifetime Reproductive Success: A Prospective Cohort Study of Finnish Male and Female Twins

(2013) Karri Silventoinen et al.   Twin Research and Human Genetics

The effect of female height on reproductive success is negative in western populations, but more variable in non-western populations

(2012) Gert Stulp et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Intralocus sexual conflict over human height

(2012) G. Stulp et al.   Biology Letters

Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs

(2012) Michael C Turchin et al.   NATURE GENETICS

The world’s tallest nation has stopped growing taller: the height of Dutch children from 1955 to 2009

(2012) Yvonne Schönbeck et al.   PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

Constraints on the coevolution of contemporary human males and females

(2012) S. C. Stearns et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The life-history trade-off between fertility and child survival

(2012) D. W. Lawson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A curvilinear effect of height on reproductive success in human males

(2011) Gert Stulp et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Dairy products and physical stature: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials

(2011) Hans de Beer   Economics & Human Biology

From Galton to GWAS: quantitative genetics of human height

(2011) PETER M. VISSCHER et al.   Genetics Research

Why do people postpone parenthood? Reasons and social policy incentives

(2011) Melinda Mills et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION UPDATE

Evidence for evolution in response to natural selection in a contemporary human population

(2011) E. Milot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Association of Maternal Stature With Offspring Mortality, Underweight, and Stunting in Low- to Middle-Income Countries

(2010) Emre Özaltin   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

The danger of applying the breeder's equation in observational studies of natural populations

(2010) M. B. MORRISSEY et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

(2010) Jian Yang et al.   NATURE GENETICS

From Preferred to Actual Mate Characteristics: The Case of Human Body Shape

(2010) Alexandre Courtiol et al.   PLoS One

It’s about time: the temporal dynamics of phenotypic selection in the wild

(2009) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Genetics of human height

(2009) Brian P. McEvoy et al.   Economics & Human Biology

Natural selection in a contemporary human population

(2009) S. G. Byars et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Maternal height and child mortality in 42 developing countries

(2008) Christiaan W. S. Monden et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY