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SUBMITTER: Scott IM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4210032 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scott Isabel M IM Clark Andrew P AP Josephson Steven C SC Boyette Adam H AH Cuthill Innes C IC Fried Ruby L RL Gibson Mhairi A MA Hewlett Barry S BS Jamieson Mark M Jankowiak William W Honey P Lynne PL Huang Zejun Z Liebert Melissa A MA Purzycki Benjamin G BG Shaver John H JH Snodgrass J Josh JJ Sosis Richard R Sugiyama Lawrence S LS Swami Viren V Yu Douglas W DW Zhao Yangke Y Penton-Voak Ian S IS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20140922 40
A large literature proposes that preferences for exaggerated sex typicality in human faces (masculinity/femininity) reflect a long evolutionary history of sexual and social selection. This proposal implies that dimorphism was important to judgments of attractiveness and personality in ancestral environments. It is difficult to evaluate, however, because most available data come from large-scale, industrialized, urban populations. Here, we report the results for 12 populations with very diverse l ...[more]