Evidence for genetic variation in human mate preferences for sexually dimorphic physical traits.

Intersexual selection has been proposed as an important force in shaping a number of morphological traits that differ between human populations and/or between the sexes. Important to these accounts is the source of mate preferences for such traits, but this has not been investigated. In a large samp...

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Main Authors: Karin J H Verweij, Andrea V Burri, Brendan P Zietsch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3498105?pdf=render