Isabel M Scott, Andrew P Clark, Steven C Josephson, Adam H Boyette, Innes C Cuthill, Ruby L Fried, Mhairi A Gibson, Barry S Hewlett, Mark Jamieson, William Jankowiak, P Lynne Honey, Zejun Huang, Melissa A Liebert, Benjamin G Purzycki, John H Shaver, J Josh Snodgrass, Richard Sosis, Lawrence S Sugiyama, Viren Swami, Douglas W Yu, Yangke Zhao, Ian S Penton-Voak
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 levels of economic development...
October 7, 2014: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America