Reminder that much of our science has been - and often still is - contaminated by Victorian ideas. It has taken until 2024 to comprehensively debunk the idea that in most mammalian species, males are bigger than females.
nature.com/articles/s41467-024-45739-5
The narrative that larger males are the norm in mammals has predominated for over a century. An analysis of body mass dimorphism across mammals, sampling families by their species richness, indicates that males are not larger than females in most mammals and that monomorphism is almost as prevalent.
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