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- From: hough@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Susan Hough)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Headsize boy vs. girl (Was: Head size (was: ultrasound exper
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:41:41 GMT
- References: <9301261611.AA10438@kocrsw06.delcoelect.com> <16B62B52E.BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU>
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- In article <16B62B52E.BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU> BIOSEE@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Stephanie Edelmann) writes:
- >In article <9301261611.AA10438@kocrsw06.delcoelect.com>
- >
- >my Lamaze class during the following weeks. It wasn't a statistically
- >sigificant sample size, but it seemed as if every mother with a girl had
- >had a child with a relatively small head, whereas all the boy's heads were
- >rather large - some of them rather deformed, too. Any opinions out there?
- >Are boys' heads usually bigger than girls'? Or was that just a strange
- >coincidence?
-
- Boys are supposedly 1/2 lb bigger than girls on average at birth, so
- I imagine the headsize is also on average slightly bigger. But
- "big head" vs "small head" in the sense of this discussion is something
- that seems very much hereditary--I have a big head, like my father and
- third child; my husband has an average-sized head, like his father and
- my other two kids.
-
- Sue
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