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I noticed that taller parents have taller kids, which is similar. I wonder if there's some kind of mechanism underneath both correlations.

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as a tall parent, I am able to pick up my offspring by the arms, and let them 'grow down' until they reach their full length

It's also important to install shower heads at a tall height. Children prefer to be watered from above.

Myself and my ex wife are quite tall. All my kids are short. YMMV.

Ah, that’s a common problem with children. You need to wait a few years. They’ll grow out of it.

What about the mail man?

IME one only has to worry about the taller and more handsome ones. (Being a shorter person that's usually all of them in my case.)

You might want to get a DNA test.

> I noticed that taller parents have taller kids,

Probably because of genes and access to nutritious food.

Behavior patterns are patterns you learn because you just see it every day.

You can already see this in a lot of kids and recognize their parents through it.

Behavior can be genetic. Sometimes at wedding you can see which part is the brides (or grooms) family bacause they all have the same worried look and wrinkles shaped by it.

I don't think so.

There are probably plenty of examples of kids in foster care who do not share those behavior patterns

You don’t think behavior can be genetic?

I'd never thought of "tall" as a behavior.

That's the point of the comment. That behavior is as likely to be shaped by genetics as any other trait. There's not as much unique stuff about behavior as people usually think.

There’s a behavioural component.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/08/scientists-try...

I like that this article has a wrong conversion in the first sentence.

If you're referring to the 1.71m = 5.6 feet. It's technically correct but confusing, 5.6' != 5'6".

5.6feet =5'7"

This finding is even less surprising, since it could come about by either nature or nurture — whereas height is mostly determined by nature, in the absence of malnutrition.

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