How Universal Are Preferences for Female Waist-to-Hip Ratios? Evidence from the Hadza of Tanzania

1999/07/01 by Adam Wetsman, Frank W. Marlowe, Frank Marlowe · 3 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

paper · doi:10.1016/s1090-5138(99)00007-0

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• Sexual Selection, Physical Attractiveness, and Facial Neoteny: Cross-cultural Evidence and Implications [and Comments and Reply]
• Is thin really beautiful and good? Relationship between waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) and female attractiveness
• Body weight, waist-to-hip ratio, breasts, and hips: Role in judgments of female attractiveness and desirability for relationships
• Waist-to-hip ratio and preferences for body shape: A replication and extension
• Human (Homo sapiens) facial attractiveness and sexual selection: The role of symmetry and averageness.
• Sex differences in human mate preferences: Evolutionary hypotheses tested in 37 cultures
• Attractive Faces Are Only Average
• Body shape and women’s attractiveness
• Adaptive significance of female physical attractiveness: Role of waist-to-hip ratio.

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