The mystery of female beauty

Douglas W. Yu () and Glenn H. Shepard
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Douglas W. Yu: Harvard University
Glenn H. Shepard: University of California

Nature, 1999, vol. 399, issue 6733, 216-216

Abstract: Abstract Yu and Shepard reply — We have proposed that cultural invariance in beauty preferences could be an artefact of exposure to a dominant culture, and also that evolutionary psychology should embrace variation because adaptive evolution is as likely to produce variable outcomes as fixed ones1. Accordingly, Manning et al . suggest that a culturally variable male preference for women with high WHR might reflect a culturally variable preference for producing more sons with higher testosterone levels. But this intriguing explanation probably does not apply to the Matsigenka people.

Date: 1999
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