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

Authors
Citation
L. Newson et S. Lea, The limits imposed by culture: Are symmetry preferences evidence of a recent reproductive strategy or a common primate inheritance?, BEHAV BRAIN, 23(4), 2000, pp. 618
Citations number
2
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology,"Neurosciences & Behavoir
Journal title
BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
ISSN journal
0140525X → ACNP
Volume
23
Issue
4
Year of publication
2000
Database
ISI
SICI code
0140-525X(200008)23:4<618:TLIBCA>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Women's preference for symmetrical men need not have evolved as part of a g ood gene sexual selection (GGSS) reproductive strategy employed during rece nt human evolutionary history. It may be a remnant of the reproductive stra tegy of a perhaps promiscuous species which existed prior to the divergence of the human line from that of the bonobo and chimp.