You're probably right, American teenagers are hitting puberty earlier too and growth hormones in milk and beef were the main suspects. But also: When women hav

You're probably right, American teenagers are hitting puberty earlier too and growth hormones in milk and beef were the main suspects. But also: When women have a large pool of potential mates to chose from they usually select the healthier larger males. In the USA we all speak the same language, use the same currency, can move to whatever city we want and that gives women a much larger selection of big males to mate with. While in European countries, there are language barriers, cultural barriers, and smaller populations per country. Although the population of europe is 700+ million, the population tends to stay in it's home country and intermarry with it's own kind to an extent. Meaning once all the big males in a country are married and taken, the women there start mating with medium & smaller men. That's my theory at least. American culture is also very extreme-masculine, homophobic, scared of looking weak, and obsessed with dominant macho males. It might have to do with white men's fear of strong dominating black men which are the majority in many physical sports and are over-represented in violent crimes and present in high-crime neighborhoods. So maybe it's a security thing. http://metro.co.uk/2007/02/01/dutch-are-the-worlds-tallest-its-official-40091/ http://metro.co.uk/2007/02/01/dutch-are-the-worlds-tallest-i...