On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Philip Hart wrote: #On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: #> I'm pretty sure Dragaeran women are proportionately shorter #> than men, though still taller than Easterner men. Can't #> remember where I read it though. # #Fwiw (aka zilch) I've wondered about this for a few years without #coming across evidence either way. When we're looking from Vlad's POV, all Dragaerans loom over him. He does make note of a few extremes -- Aliera is extremely short for a Dragaeran, and I remember some minor character as being extraordinarily tall. #In case someone hasn't mentioned it, differences in size between male and #female members of species is apparently strongly inversely related to the #degree of monogamousness (monogamosity?). Monogamy. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel