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The limits imposed by culture: Are symmetry preferences evidence of a recent reproductive strategy or a common primate inheritance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Lesley Newson  and
Stephen Lea
Lesley Newson
Affiliation:
Washington Singer Laboratories, Exeter EX4 4QG, United Kingdom{l.newson; s.e.g.lea}@ex.ac.ukwww.ex.ac.uk{~LNewson;~SEGLea}
Stephen Lea
Affiliation:
Washington Singer Laboratories, Exeter EX4 4QG, United Kingdom{l.newson; s.e.g.lea}@ex.ac.ukwww.ex.ac.uk{~LNewson;~SEGLea}
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Abstract

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Women's preference for symmetrical men need not have evolved as part of a good gene sexual selection (GGSS) reproductive strategy employed during recent human evolutionary history. It may be a remnant of the reproductive strategy of a perhaps promiscuous species which existed prior to the divergence of the human line from that of the bonobo and chimp.

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Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 618 - 619
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press