Exhibiting two distinct forms of growth as differentiated according to gender.

Human females differ from human males, for example, and in ways that are other than in terms of primary sexual characteristics, e.g., males tend to be taller.

Interestingly, though, in fact the amount of sexual dimorphism displayed by Homo sapiens is not as substantial as that seen in other great apes.

More generally, see simply dimorphism.

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