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dc.contributor.author | Scott, IM | - |
dc.contributor.author | Clark, AP | - |
dc.contributor.author | Josephson, SC | - |
dc.contributor.author | Boyette, AH | - |
dc.contributor.author | Cuthill, IC | - |
dc.contributor.author | Fried, RL | - |
dc.contributor.author | Gibson, MA | - |
dc.contributor.author | Hewlett, BS | - |
dc.contributor.author | Jamieson, M | - |
dc.contributor.author | Jankowiak, W | - |
dc.contributor.author | Honey, PL | - |
dc.contributor.author | Huang, Z | - |
dc.contributor.author | Liebert, MA | - |
dc.contributor.author | Purzycki, BG | - |
dc.contributor.author | Shaver, JH | - |
dc.contributor.author | Snodgrass, JJ | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sosis, R | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sugiyama, LS | - |
dc.contributor.author | Swami, V | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yu, DW | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhao, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Penton-Voak, IS | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-19T16:36:12Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-10-07 | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-19T16:36:12Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111 (40): pp. 14388 - 14393, 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0027-8424 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9588 | - |
dc.description | This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund. | - |
dc.description.abstract | A large literature proposes that preferences for exaggerated sex typicality in human faces (masculinity/femininity) reflect a long evolutionary history of sexual and social selection. This proposal implies that dimorphism was important to judgments of attractiveness and personality in ancestral environments. It is difficult to evaluate, however, because most available data come from largescale, industrialized, urban populations. Here, we report the results for 12 populations with very diverse levels of economic development. Surprisingly, preferences for exaggerated sex-specific traits are only found in the novel, highly developed environments. Similarly, perceptions that masculine males look aggressive increase strongly with development, specifically, urbanization. These data challenge the hypothesis that facial dimorphism was an important ancestral signal of heritable mate value. One possibility is that highly developed environments provide novel opportunities to discern relationships between facial traits and behavior by exposing individuals to large numbers of unfamiliar faces, revealing patterns too subtle to detect with smaller samples. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | National Academy of Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject | Aggression | en_US |
dc.subject | Cross-cultural | en_US |
dc.subject | Evolution | en_US |
dc.subject | Facial attractiveness | en_US |
dc.subject | Stereotyping | en_US |
dc.title | Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | - |
dc.relation.isPartOf | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | - |
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pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups/Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups/Brunel Institute of Cancer Genetics and Pharmacogenomics | - |
pubs.organisational-data | /Brunel/University Research Centres and Groups/School of Health Sciences and Social Care - URCs and Groups/Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology | - |
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