ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2011
Mate preferences and infectious disease: theoretical considerations and evidence in humans.
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- Host-Parasite Coevolution in Primates.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Self-perceived Mate Value is Predicted by Biological and self-reported Indices of Health in Young Adults.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2023Article
- Facial and body sexual dimorphism are not interconnected in the Maasai.Journal of physiological anthropology · 2022Article
- Darwin Versus Wallace: Esthetic Evolution and Preferential Mate Choice.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Concern About Contracting COVID-19 Predicts Men's Preference for Female Facial Femininity, But Not Women's Preference for Male Facial Masculinity.Adaptive human behavior and physiology · 2021Article
- A multivariate analysis of women's mating strategies and sexual selection on men's facial morphology.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Mating avoidance in female olive baboons (Science advances · 2019Article
- Sex Differences in Facial and Vocal Attractiveness Among College Students in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Why do people vary in disgust?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
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- Microbes and masculinity: Does exposure to pathogenic cues alter women's preferences for male facial masculinity and beardedness?PloS one · 2017Article
- The relationship between health and mating success in humans.Royal Society open science · 2017Article
- Health, Anticipated Partner Infidelity, and Jealousy in Men and Women.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behavior · 2015Article
- The sociality-health-fitness nexus: synthesis, conclusions and future directions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015Review
- Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014Article
- Genetic factors that increase male facial masculinity decrease facial attractiveness of female relatives.Psychological science · 2014Article
- Simulating the evolution of the human family: cooperative breeding increases in harsh environments.PloS one · 2013Article
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Abstract
Mate preferences may operate in part to mitigate the threats posed by infectious disease. In this paper, we outline various ways in which preferring healthy mates can offer direct benefits in terms of pathogen avoidance and indirect benefits in terms of heritable immunity to offspring, as well as the costs that may constrain mate preferences for health. We then pay special attention to empirical work on mate preferences in humans given the depth and breadth of research on human mating. We review this literature and comment on the degree to which human mate preferences may reflect preferences for health.
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