It's always possible
It's also possible that the violence in men is rooted in biology and the culture of violence is something that manifested as a result in order to reinforce this existing dynamic
Since it seems pretty ubiquitous across cultures and has clear physiological indicators (as you said, men are bigger) and also conveniently aligns with the primitive division of labor (men as hunters and warriors)... It seems like there's a good chance this isn't all some big coincidence
This is what I was saying about terms like social construct and conditioning not being mutually exclusive with biological answers. Technically, "species" is a social construct. So is "life." Neither of these categories have straight forward definitions that apply across the board, the same way genders and sex don't. That doesn't mean they aren't essentially describing an underlying biological reality.
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