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  1. Stabilizing and directional selection on facial paedomorphosis.Paul Wehr, Kevin MacDonald, Rhoda Lindner & Grace Yeung - 2001 - Human Nature 12 (4):383-402.
    Averageness is purportedly the result of stabilizing selection maintaining the population mean, whereas facial paedomorphosis is a product of directional selection driving the population mean towards an increasingly juvenile appearance. If selection is predominantly stabilizing, intermediate phenotypes reflect high genetic quality and mathematically average faces should be found attractive. If, on the other hand, directional selection is strong enough, extreme phenotypes reflect high genetic quality and juvenilized faces will be found attractive. To compare the effects of stabilizing and directional selection (...)
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  • Preference and the contextual basis of ideals in judgment and choice.Douglas H. Wedell & Jonathan C. Pettibone - 1999 - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 128 (3):346.
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  • Mate Choice Copying in Humans.D. Waynforth - 2007 - Human Nature 18 (3):264-271.
    There is substantial evidence that in human mate choice, females directly select males based on male display of both physical and behavioral traits. In non-humans, there is additionally a growing literature on indirect mate choice, such as choice through observing and subsequently copying the mating preferences of conspecifics (mate choice copying). Given that humans are a social species with a high degree of sharing information, long-term pair bonds, and high parental care, it is likely that human females could avoid substantial (...)
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  • Judging Others by Your Own Standards: Attractiveness of Primate Faces as Seen by Human Respondents.Silvie Rádlová, Eva Landová & Daniel Frynta - 2018 - Frontiers in Psychology 9:418336.
    The aspects of facial attractiveness have been widely studied, especially within the context of evolutionary psychology, which proposes that aesthetic judgements of human faces are shaped by biologically based standards of beauty reflecting the mate quality. However, the faces of primates, who are very similar to us yet still considered non-human, remain neglected. In this paper, we aimed to study the facial attractiveness of non-human primates as judged by human respondents. We asked 286 Czech respondents to score photos of 107 (...)
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  • Mate preferences among Hadza hunter-gatherers.Frank W. Marlowe - 2004 - Human Nature 15 (4):365-376.
    The literature on human mate preferences is vast but most data come from studies on college students in complex societies, who represent a thin slice of cultural variation in an evolutionarily novel environment. Here, I present data on the mate preferences of men and women in a society of hunter-gatherers, the Hadza of Tanzania. Hadza men value fertility in a mate more than women do, and women value intelligence more than men do. Women place great importance on men’s foraging, and (...)
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  • Children's Facial Trustworthiness Judgments: Agreement and Relationship with Facial Attractiveness.Fengling Ma, Fen Xu & Xianming Luo - 2016 - Frontiers in Psychology 7.
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  • Physically attractive faces attract us physically.Robin S. S. Kramer, Jerrica Mulgrew, Nicola C. Anderson, Daniil Vasilyev, Alan Kingstone, Michael G. Reynolds & Robert Ward - 2020 - Cognition 198 (C):104193.
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  • Raising Darwin’s consciousness.Sarah Blaffer Hrdy - 1997 - Human Nature 8 (1):1-49.
    Sociobiologists and feminists agree that men in patriarchal social systems seek to control females, but sociobiologists go further, using Darwin’s theory of sexual selection and Trivers’s ideas on parental investment to explain why males should attempt to control female sexuality. From this perspective, the stage for the development under some conditions of patriarchal social systems was set over the course of primate evolution. Sexual selection encompasses both competition between males and female choice. But in applying this theory to our “lower (...)
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  • The evolution of human mating: Trade-offs and strategic pluralism.Steven W. Gangestad & Jeffry A. Simpson - 2000 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23 (4):573-587.
    During human evolutionary history, there were “trade-offs” between expending time and energy on child-rearing and mating, so both men and women evolved conditional mating strategies guided by cues signaling the circumstances. Many short-term matings might be successful for some men; others might try to find and keep a single mate, investing their effort in rearing her offspring. Recent evidence suggests that men with features signaling genetic benefits to offspring should be preferred by women as short-term mates, but there are trade-offs (...)
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