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janrinok
on Thursday March 06 2014, @07:24PM
from the Crowd-of-small,-poor,-and-not-terribly-bright-people dept.
from the Crowd-of-small,-poor,-and-not-terribly-bright-people dept.
GungnirSniper writes:
"The link between height and income as well as height and leadership have been known for some time. Yet a new study published in Behavior Genetics has found a 'modest genetic correlation between height and intelligence with the majority of the phenotypic correlation being explained by shared genetic influences'. This seems to agree with a similar study done by the US National Institutes of Health that found a 'perceptual relationship between height and leadership ability.'
Discovery News has a lighter read on the new study's results."
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(Score: 3, Informative) by mrbluze on Thursday March 06 2014, @09:48PM
The reason being tall is linked to cancer is because growth hormone, which obviously promotes growth, requires that the immune system be suppressed during growth periods. This opens the door for cancers to develop. An interesting lead for this is the association with fasting and reduced cancer risk ie: Insulin-like Growth Factor.
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